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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Robert A. "Bob" Hoover, a World War II fighter pilot who became an aviation legend for his flying skills in testing aircraft and demonstrating their capabilities in air shows, has died at age 94.Hoover, who lived in Palos Verdes Estates, California, died early Tuesday, said Bill Fanning, a close family friend ...
Toyota is recalling about 5.8 million vehicles in Japan, Europe, China and other countries to replace potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators. The company says it knows of one person injured in a crash involving one of the vehicles, but a spokesman didn’t know where the crash happened. Toyota says ...
Japanese household investors are buying rupee-linked bonds like never before as negative interest rates at home prompt them to take greater risks in search for yield. The amount of Uridashi notes sold in the Indian currency surged to a record $1.45 billion this year from 105 offerings, making up 6.2 ...
Microsoft launched a new consumer offensive Wednesday, unveiling a high-end computer that challenges the Apple iMac along with an updated Windows operating system that showcases three-dimensional content and “mixed reality.” The U.S. tech giant announced its first desktop computer, called Surface Studio, a $3,000 high-end “all-in-one” device that aims at ...
Nissan Motor Co Ltd said on Wednesday it will stop production in May of the Mexican-built Tsuru, an economical and hardy sedan beloved by taxi drivers but often sold without airbags and widely criticized for its poor crash record. In production since the early 1980s, the Tsuru has been a ...
Taiwan is considering phasing out restrictions on the import of food products from five Japanese prefectures banned in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima reactor meltdowns. Deputy Council of Agriculture Minister Chen Chi-chung told Kyodo News that the administration is working toward the direction of relaxing the restrictions in two ...
TOKYO - Philippine officials sought more Japanese investments on Wednesday in such areas as manufacturing, infrastructure, agriculture and energy, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte arrived in Japan for a three-day visit.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte assured Japanese business leaders Wednesday that his country’s increased engagement with China is limited to economics. In spontaneous remarks made after delivering a prepared speech at the Philippine Economic Forum on the second day of his three-day visit, Duterte said there were no talks “about arms,” ...
Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. has slashed its operating profit and sales forecasts for this fiscal year, despite the global success of “Pokemon Go.” The Kyoto-based maker of Super Mario games and the Wii U console said Wednesday that it booked a ¥62.7 billion gain in April-September from its ...
Canon Inc. on Wednesday revised downward its full-year group earnings forecast for this year, citing the persistent higher yen and sluggish sales in emerging economies. In the year ending Dec. 31, the maker of printers, photocopiers and cameras expects a group net profit of ¥165 billion ($1.58 billion), down 25.1 ...
Messaging app provider Line Corp. reported a group net profit Wednesday of ¥5.32 billion ($51 million) in the January to September period, helped by growth in users and advertising revenue. Line’s consolidated operating profit came to ¥18.29 billion on sales of ¥103.24 billion, up 17.2 percent from a year earlier. ...
Tokyo’s Ginza district will see its newest and biggest commercial complex open next April as it seeks to attract more visitors by providing a luxurious and culture-rich experience, developers said Wednesday. With the growth of e-commerce, consumer behavior has been shifting, leaving traditional “shopping facilities that merely sell products to ...
The dollar was weaker around ¥104.20 in late Tokyo trading on Wednesday after moving in a narrow range in the absence of fresh trading incentives. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥104.17-18, down from ¥104.45-47 at the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.0917-0917, up from $1.0874-0876, and ...
Stocks climbed for the third straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, with their downside supported by buying on dips and the dollar’s stable moves against the yen. The 225-issue Nikkei average grew 26.59 points, or 0.15 percent, to end at 17,391.84. On Tuesday, the key market gauge rose ...
Naruatsu Baba, the 39-year old billionaire and founder of mobile game developer Colopl Inc. breaks the mold of your typical Japanese executive: he’s completely immodest about his success. “Professionally, I’ve never really made any mistakes,” Baba said in an interview, sitting next to a life-size R2-D2 and a soccer jersey ...
Japan’s Lotte Holdings Co. decided at a board meeting Wednesday to let Akio Shigemitsu continue serving as the firm’s vice chairman. The decision followed a news conference in Seoul on Tuesday in which Shigemitsu expressed his intention to remain chairman of South Korean conglomerate Lotte. Although he was indicted without ...
TOKYO: Japan's export engine built around cars and electronics has stalled, but the future could be using the country's gourmet culture to cast itself as a purveyor of high-quality food.
Event planner Beth Bernstein decided she had had enough with Donald Trump after his 2005 hot-mic boasts about groping women came to light earlier this month. She removed photos of weddings she had thrown at a Trump hotel in Chicago from her website, wrote to hotel staff to remove her ...
The Coca-Cola group and Kirin Holdings Co. are considering forming a capital tie-up and launching joint operations in Japan’s soft-drink market, where little growth potential is seen due to the country’s declining population. Kirin, Coca-Cola East Japan Co. and Coca-Cola West Co. said in separate releases Wednesday that they are ...
Apple said Tuesday its profit over the past quarter fell 19 percent to $9 billion, pulled down by a widely expected drop in iPhone sales. The world’s biggest company by market value said revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter fell to $46.9 billion from $51.5 billion a year earlier. The ...
There have been 236 cases in Japan since 2012 in which the number of air passengers who followed all preboarding procedures was different from that of passengers who boarded a flight, the transport ministry said Tuesday. In five of the cases, more passengers than a plane’s capacity were found on ...