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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar dropped below ¥105 in Tokyo trading Monday, weighed down by uncertainties stemming from the FBI’s new probe into Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥104.91-92, down from ¥105.26-27 the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0960-0961, up from $1.0916-0916, ...
The benchmark Nikkei average fell back slightly Monday after being weighed down by the yen’s ascent. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 21.39 points, or 0.12 percent, to close at 17,425.02 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Friday, the key gauge added 109.99 points for its highest finish since April 22. ...
Honda Motor Co. will spearhead its artificial intelligence efforts out of a new lab in Tokyo so researchers can work closely with its engineers to commercialize the technology. Honda, based in Tokyo, will start the R&D center next year and combine existing AI teams in Silicon Valley, Europe and Japan ...
Creating the new behemoth is aimed at surviving the shrinking global container industry. The post Japan’s top three shippers to merge container businesses into world’s No. 6 appeared first on The Japan Times.
Engineers at Toyota Motor Corp. say they have tamed volatile lithium-ion battery technology, and can now safely pack more power at no significant extra cost, giving the automaker the option to enter the growing all-electric car market. While rivals including Tesla Motors and Nissan Motor Co. began adopting Li-ion battery ...
The three largest shipping companies in Japan will combine their container lines as a slowdown in trade crimps their industry worldwide.
Jordan Reeves works for a nonprofit and his partner is a puppeteer. They say there’s not a lot of spare income floating around their Brooklyn apartment. That’s why they sometimes rent the place through Airbnb for extra cash when they’re not there. But a new law that carries fines of ...
The crowdsourcing goal was modest: $5,000, enough to help a few dozen people camping in North Dakota to protest the nearby construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The fund has since topped a staggering $1 million. The fund is among several cash streams that have provided at least ...
A federal judge rejected a bid by the four largest U.S. airlines to dismiss nationwide antitrust litigation by passengers who accused them of conspiring to raise fares by keeping seating capacity artificially low. In a decision late Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she could “reasonably infer the ...
Political style yard-signs with the giant word “NO” over the image of a wind turbine pop up on roads leading into the southern Vermont town of Grafton, evidence that yet another community in the state is debating whether to become home to an industrial wind farm. But added to an ...
TOKYO - Traditionally seen as conductors of funerals or memorial services, some Buddhist monks in Japan are carving out a new niche as matchmakers for men and women looking for marriage partners.
Japan is turning to a small German company to generate power from timber irradiated by the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear meltdowns. Closely held Entrade Energiesysteme AG will sell electricity from 400 of its container-size biomass-to-power machines set up in Fukushima Prefecture, said Julien Uhlig, the Duesseldorf-based company’s chief executive ...
The trade chiefs of Japan, China and South Korea agreed in a trilateral meeting Saturday to promote negotiations on free trade and cooperation in the energy sector. They also vowed to urge more trade and investment around the globe and cooperate on hosting the Olympics. The three countries also reaffirmed ...
Elon Musk showcased his ambitions to make Tesla Motors Inc. a clean-energy behemoth on Friday, unveiling a new solar roof product at Universal Studios in Los Angeles. As the sun set, Musk told hundreds of guests gathered in an outside courtyard on the “Desperate Housewives” set that Tesla and SolarCity ...
A week after Tottori was rocked by a magnitude-6.6 earthquake, the impact on tourism and agrriculture has local bureaucrats scrambling to mend the damage. The post Tottori rushes to combat tourism, agriculture losses after quake appeared first on The Japan Times.
Nissan Motor Co.’s decision to keep investing in Britain came after the carmaker told the government it might shut down manufacturing in the country once it leaves the European Union, according to a person familiar with the private discussions. The automaker announced Thursday it will start making the X-Trail sport ...
You can watch any video for six seconds, played on an infinite loop. The funniest ones only get more ridiculous with repetition. That was the beauty of Vine, the simple pioneering mobile video app that Twitter has decided to kill off. Its loyal users are mourning its weirdness, humor and ...
A full, three-hour long debate in the House on Thursday about the Budget vote for the Foreign Ministry did not tackle, except fleetingly, the elephant in the Chamber: Malta is the only EU country not in the anti-Isis coalition.According to the US State Department, the participants in the coalition are ...
Canada and the European Union will sign a landmark free trade deal on Sunday after key votes in Belgian regional assemblies on Friday ended opposition that had threatened to destroy the agreement. Soon after the final Belgian vote, European Council President Donald Tusk called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and ...
The trade chiefs of Japan, China and South Korea will hold a meeting in Tokyo Saturday and are expected to agree to further promote free trade, trade minister Hiroshige Seko said Friday. “We have seen protectionist moves across the globe. We hope that the three countries will confirm the importance ...
After weak first-quarter investment figures added to concerns about the outlook for China’s economy, one of the government’s most powerful policymaking bodies commissioned a study of private businesses to discover how to turn it around. That report, seen by Bloomberg, contained a slew of policy proposals that altogether would amount ...