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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Tokyo TY President Keizo Ajioka has expressed the banking group’s willingness to boost loans to small companies in the capital. “Tokyo has the largest concentration of small companies in Japan,” Ajioka said in a recent interview. “As a local banking group in Tokyo, we want to strengthen loans to such ...
German prosecutors probing whether Volkswagen executives manipulated the markets in the wake of the “dieselgate” scandal have widened their investigation to include the group’s supervisory board chief, the embattled auto giant said Sunday. VW said the probe had now also ensnared board Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch, who was only appointed ...
Mexico’s peso jumped on Sunday after the FBI announced it stood by a previous decision to not charge Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton over emails related to her private server, a decision that comes just two days before the election. The peso, which has been hit by the rise of Republican ...
Hard Rock Cafe International Inc. is prepared to make a “major investment” in Japan as lawmakers propose to renew the debate on legalizing casinos in the country. The U.S. cafe and casino chain is looking for partners to jointly bid for a license in anticipation that the Diet will approve ...
STRATEGISTS working on a formula to bring together the Opposition chiefs ahead of next year’s elections have proposed the reintroduction of the position of Prime Minister and two Deputy PMs. The team has also proposed that the Constitution be amended to create the three positions in a mode that will also ...
Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party in October instructed government authorities to revise plans to build nuclear power plants with Russian and Japanese assistance with a view to delaying them due to the government’s tight finances, it was learned Sunday from party and government sources. The government is now working on a ...
Fourteen percent of Japanese adults living alone have no money in the bank to guard themselves for rainy days, according to a recent survey of several thousand people by the nation’s Central Council for Financial Services Information. The annual research by the council, which is run by the Bank of ...
A panel appointed by the communications ministry will call for bolstering guidelines aimed at preventing excessive discounts for smartphones, it has been learned. The proposal on Monday will stress that better standards are needed to check whether consumers are being charged legitimate fees, a draft of the document viewed Saturday ...
China’s extravagant display of military might at its largest air show last week, overlooking the disputed South China Sea, comes as Beijing seeks to leverage that clout on world markets. And the throngs of foreign delegations at Airshow China in the southern resort of Zhuhai indicate China is succeeding — ...
Panasonic Corp. has disciplined more than 90 employees involved in TV-related procurement deals for accepting dinners from parts suppliers overseas in violation of company rules, a company official said Saturday. The employees had been wined and dined by local parts manufacturers on over 2,000 occasions over a period of several ...
Trade minister Hiroshige Seko and Russian Far East development minister Alexander Galushka agreed Friday to promote economic development projects in Russia’s Far East ahead of a summit between their leaders in December, Japanese government officials said. Tokyo is hoping to use bilateral economic cooperation to make progress on a territorial ...
Source: World Food Programme Country: South SudanFollowing an outbreak of violence in the South Sudanese capital of Juba in July, there has been a spike in conflict in the southern part of the country which is the most agriculturally productive region.JUBA – A multi-agency convoy led by the United Nations World ...
Electric cars will fall short of helping the environment without cleaner energy to charge the vehicles’ batteries, said Carlos Ghosn, chief executive officer of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA. “At least the car industry is bringing a breakthrough, which consists in saying that you are going to be transporting ...
In an effort to get the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement ratified before a new president and Congress take over next year, the White House Council of Economic Advisors has warned that congressional failure to pass the 12-nation free trade deal means U.S. firms could lose out to China in the Japanese ...
The U.S. unit of Takata Corp. is considering filing for Chapter 11 protection under the federal bankruptcy code, a source close to the matter said Friday, a move apparently aimed at seeking a sponsor to help pay for the cost of the global recall of its air bag inflators that ...
The key Nikkei average suffered another tumble to close below 17,000 for the first time in about two weeks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, in the wake of the yen’s appreciation partly reflecting renewed jitters over the “Trump risk” in the coming U.S. presidential election. The 225-issue Nikkei ...
The dollar was easier around ¥103.20 in late Tokyo trading on Friday, with its topside pressured by uncertainty about the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥103.21-22, down from ¥103.65-65 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1096-1097, up from $1.1073-1073, and ...
Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International could plow almost $10 billion into a Japanese casino via a publicly traded real estate investment trust, its chief executive has said, as Tokyo inches closer to legalizing the industry. Casinos are currently banned in Japan, but the odds of their legalization have improved sharply ...
President Barack Obama’s 2013 tax increases for wealthy Americans neither slowed their income growth nor hurt the economy, according to a study that taps into a key debate in the current presidential race. The top 1 percent of earners managed to increase their share of the nation’s income at about ...
Donald Trump’s protectionist policies aside, rising political risk in Southeast Asia is casting a shadow over economies that have been a driver of global growth in recent years. Foreign investors pulled out of Thailand stocks at the fastest pace this year in October. The Philippine peso has sunk close to ...
Japanese motorcycle manufacturers are promoting their products at the Indonesian Motorcycle Show 2016 in Jakarta, with Suzuki Motor Corp. using the biennial event to unveil its latest models. Suzuki took the wraps off the GSX-R 150 and GSX-S 150 sport motorcycle models at the five-day show, which runs until Sunday, ...