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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
As Japan’s entrepreneurial spirit fades, the elderly make up a rising share of people going into business for themselves. About a third of new entrepreneurs were 60 or older in 2012, the latest year for which data was available, according to the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, part of the ...
In a small coastal town on the Sea of Japan, Uber Technologies Inc. is deploying an unusual strategy. The average age of an Uber passenger in Kyoto’s Tangocho district, population 5,914, is at least 70. Even stranger: Most of these elderly customers don’t own a smartphone, so they have to ...
Japan posted a goods trade surplus of ¥2.46 trillion ($24 billion) for the April to September half, reversing the ¥1.28 trillion deficit posted a year earlier, after imports plunged thanks to lower oil prices, the government said Monday. The value of imports dived 19.1 percent from a year earlier to ...
In the photos, Alejandra Salgado and her little brother, Francisco, look like ordinary tourists strolling the streets of Midtown Manhattan. He carries a shopping bag. She wears a white dress, a necklace and a leather tote slung over one shoulder. But the outings were hardly innocent. Over two hours, federal ...
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton thinks U.S. regulators should closely scrutinize AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner, her spokesman said on Sunday. Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told reporters on Sunday there were “a number of questions and concerns” about the deal “but there’s still a lot of information that needs to ...
Sloshed back at rowdy open-air “bia hoi” day and night, beer is Vietnam’s tipple of choice and now its cash-strapped government is drawing on the nation’s penchant for lager to raise billions of dollars by selling stakes in state-owned brewers. The unprecedented divestments in two state crown jewels, the makers ...
The growth engine of Korea's flagship businesses is losing steam, with their profitability and sales both declining. Against this backdrop, concerns are growing about whether their growth reached a limit. According to an analysis of the six-year (from 2010 to 2015) profitability, growth and stability of the top-500 listed companies ...
Japan's September exports fell 6.9 percent from the same month last year, said Japanese Ministry of Finance on October 24. This is better than the figure estimated by Bloomberg at -10.8 percent. The nation's exports have been in decline for 12 consecutive months since October last year, largely due to ...
(Teleborsa) - Positivi i conti con l'estero del Giappone, a settembre. Secondo il Ministero delle Finanze del Giappone (MOF), la bilancia commerciale ha chiuso con un attivo di 498,3 miliardi di...
(Teleborsa) - Segnali di forte espansione giungono dall'attività industriale giapponese, soprattutto grazie alla crescita di nuovi ordini. Nel mese di ottobre, la stima flash dell'indice PMI...
Sharp Corp. is considering closing a light-emitting diode display plant in Hiroshima Prefecture next year as part of its restructuring efforts under Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., sources familiar with the matter said Sunday. The electronics company may consolidate the production line at the facility in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, ...
TOKYO - With signs of a slowdown in foreign tourists' spending at the main urban shopping centres in Japan, officials and businesses in regional cities in Japan are aiming to draw greater interest in their untapped tourism resources as repeat visitors from abroad increase.
Washington The collapse of free trade talks between Canada and the European Union Friday is yet another sign of increasingly stiff resistance to economic globalization. Despite seven years of talks between Ottawa and Brussels, the CETA treaty crashed into a wall Friday after being rejected by the Belgian region of ...
Could millions of connected cameras, thermostats and kids’ toys bring the internet to its knees? It’s beginning to look that way. On Friday, epic cyberattacks crippled a major internet firm, repeatedly disrupting the availability of popular websites across the United States. The hacker group claiming responsibility says that the day’s ...
The head of the British Bankers’ Association has warned that financial firms are planning to start leaving London within weeks because of uncertainty about the U.K.’s exit from the European Union. Chief Executive Anthony Browne said in an article published Sunday that banks fear EU politicians will erect trade barriers ...
Japan will provide about ¥4 billion ($39 million) in loans to Russia’s Sberbank by the end of the year that will go to a construction project at a port in the Russian Far East, sources said Saturday. The loan, to be offered through the government-backed Japan Bank for International Cooperation, ...
About 0.002 percent of the population requires dialysis, but this group is responsible for one-30th of the country's medical costs. The post Shocking blog post forces debate on the financial drain of dialysis in Japan appeared first on The Japan Times.
AT&T has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner for about $85 billion, sources said on Friday, paving the way for the biggest deal in the world this year. The agreement would give the telecom company control of the cable TV channels HBO and CNN, the film studio ...
Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it will start selling fuel cell buses in Japan from early 2017, gearing up for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics when it hopes to introduce 100 or more hydrogen-powered buses mainly in Tokyo. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s transportation bureau plans to use two eco-friendly ...
Odakyu Electric Railway Co. has unveiled a new design for its signature Romancecar limited express train connecting Tokyo with the hot-spring resort of Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. The new train will offer luxurious trips to and from the famed area near to Mount Fuji. The 70000 series Romancecar, which has ...
It is believed to be the first such incident involving the troubled smartphone at an airport facility or on aircraft in Japan. The post Departing passenger’s Galaxy Note 7 emits smoke at Kansai airport appeared first on The Japan Times.