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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Sharp Corp. says that its Plasmacluster ion technology, designed to disinfect and deodorize air, is also effective in promoting hair growth — a claim that comes as the electronics firm looks to market new beauty products using the technology. The company said Thursday external studies it commissioned have confirmed that ...
Japanese and foreign semiconductor makers have started developing a cooperation framework to ensure early recovery of plant operations following disasters, industry sources said. The post Japanese, foreign chipmakers developing post-disaster cooperation framework appeared first on The Japan Times.
Executives heading the Japanese Trade Union Confederation (Rengo) have agreed that the organization will request a pay scale hike for the fourth consecutive year in the next shunto labor-management wage negotiations toward next spring. The executives reached the agreement at a meeting Friday in the city of Fukushima. Rengo is ...
Concerts and colossal beach parties in Thailand have been canceled. An annual floating lantern festival meant to placate the country’s goddess of water will not take place. And closed for the first time in years: red-light districts in the heart of the Thai capital filled with seedy go-go bars so ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping, stepping up a competition with India for regional influence, said Friday ties with Bangladesh would be enhanced to a strategic partnership as the two countries signed 27 agreements worth billions of dollars. Xi, making a first trip by a Chinese president to Bangladesh in 30 years, ...
The Treasury Department said Friday it has retained Japan, China and others on a list of countries it monitors over what it calls potentially “unfair” currency practices, but concluded that none of the U.S. trading partners is manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage. Despite a sharp appreciation ...
A mixed bag of Chinese economic data this week has unnerved global markets and clouded the outlook for China’s economic growth, days before the release of the country’s quarterly gross domestic product figures. Global markets rose on Friday after official data showed China’s factory output prices grew in September for ...
Passengers and flight crews will be banned from bringing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on airline flights under an emergency order issued Friday by the Department of Transportation in response to reports of the phones catching fire. The order, which goes into effect on Saturday at noon EDT, says the ...
Passengers on United Airlines reported long delays after the latest in a long line of technology problems at the nation’s biggest carriers. United said Friday that it had fixed the overnight issue, yet hours later the airline still could not explain what went wrong or even how many flights were ...
Following the death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday, many Japanese companies suspended their business activities in the country on Friday. The companies decided to cease production and sales promotions to express their condolences to the Thai people, who are mourning the passing of the highly esteemed and charismatic ...
Until recently, public meetings between Japanese defense contractors and uniformed foreign military delegations would have stirred controversy in Japan, yet this week’s aerospace show in Tokyo saw plenty. With the nation stepping back from decades of state-sponsored pacifism amid concern over China’s growing power and a rising North Korean threat, ...
Some airlines are taking extra steps to prevent a disaster in case a passenger’s device powered by a lithium ion battery catches fire during flight. At least three U.S. airlines are adding new fire suppression equipment to fleets in case a cellphone or laptop battery overheats, catches on fire and ...
The dollar was firmer above ¥104 in Tokyo trading on Friday, aided chiefly by upbeat Chinese economic data and higher stock prices in Japan. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥104.20-20, up from ¥103.86-87 at the same time on Thursday. The euro was unchanged at $1.1011-1012, and stood at ...
Stocks turned higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, supported by the yen’s weakening. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 82.13 points, or 0.49 percent, to close at 16,856.37. On Thursday, the key market gauge lost 65.76 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ended up 4.88 points, or ...
Japan’s wholesale prices fell for the 18th straight month in September, down 3.2 percent from a year earlier, with a downturn in global oil prices and the yen’s appreciation pushing down import prices, Bank of Japan data showed Friday. The latest data highlighted that the BOJ is still far from ...
Sony Music Labels Inc. decided Friday to increase production of Bob Dylan CDs after receiving over 10,000 orders following the announcement that the U.S. singer-songwriter had won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature. The CD “Dylan The Best,” released in 2007, has been particularly popular among these orders, according to ...
Japanese companies operating in Thailand are carefully assessing the impact on business in the Southeast Asian country following the death of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday at age 88. Economic activity in Thailand is expected to slow as mourning for the passing of the world’s longest-serving monarch puts a ...
Fast Retailing Co. Chairman Tadashi Yanai caved in to reality and scrapped his 8-year-old target for the Uniqlo casual-wear owner to hit ¥5 trillion ($48 billion) in annual sales by fiscal year 2020. The billionaire, who wants to make Fast Retailing the world’s largest seller of clothing, on Thursday slashed ...
SoftBank Group Corp. said it will form a new fund to invest as much as $100 billion in the global technology industry in the next five years, partnering with Saudi Arabia’s public investment fund to find tech companies that will become influential in the future. The Saudi government will consider ...
Stocks shed early gains to close lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, weighed down by dismal export data out of China. The Nikkei average lost 65.76 points, or 0.39 percent, to finish at 16,774.24. On Wednesday, it fell 184.76 points. The Topix index ended down 0.04 point at ...
Komatsu Ltd., the world’s second-biggest maker of construction and mining equipment, said its sales of excavators in China almost doubled last month, signaling an acceleration in the recovery from a five-year slump in what was once its largest market. Sales of diggers, including mini excavators weighing less than 6 metric ...