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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
South Korean President Park Geun-hye says she hopes to see progress in cooperation between the Japanese and South Korean business communities. The post Park expresses hopes for progress in Japan-South Korea economic cooperation appeared first on The Japan Times.
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda gives the clearest signal yet that the bank may delay the forecast date for achieving its 2 percent inflation target to 2018. The post Kuroda signals BOJ may delay reaching 2 percent inflation target to 2018 appeared first on The Japan Times.
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plans to sell part of its equity stake in the subsidiary that operates the Urawa Red Diamonds, a professional soccer team better known as the Urawa Reds, informed sources said Monday. The automaker is considering lowering its stake in the Urawa Reds operator to below 20 percent ...
Samsung Electronics has suspended production of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, a report said Monday, a month after a recall prompted by battery explosions and a day after two major overseas distributors halted replacements. Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone maker, declined comment on the report by South Korea’s Yonhap news ...
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Myanmar, Republic of Korea, Sri LankaAn estimated 520,000 people across eight provinces in Sri Lanka remain affected by drought as of 9 October. Water shortages are reported in several areas. REPUBLIC OF KOREA / JAPAN From 4 ...
Union members have voted for a deal that would keep Sikorsky Aircraft manufacturing U.S. Navy helicopters in Stratford, Connecticut, for at least the next 16 years. More than 2,000 Teamsters voted Sunday for the state deal that includes a 25 percent pay cut for workers hired starting in 2017. The ...
A drastic change in the nation’s tax system to encourage greater workforce participation by women could have been an effective prescription to addressing a labor shortage in the rapidly aging country. But any revision to the spousal tax deduction system is likely to be minor in this year’s tax reform ...
Virtual reality, more often than not, is touted as a feature of state-of-the-art video games with headsets that allow players to see all around them, beyond the boundaries of their monitors. But the technology’s potential extends beyond games. A team led by Masahiko Sumitani, head of the department of pain ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda says the central bank will not hesitate on monetary easing if necessary, but that such action is not currently warranted. The post BOJ chief sees no need to cut rates now appeared first on The Japan Times.
A government-affiliated bank is considering investing in a joint personal computer business that Fujitsu Ltd. and China’s Lenovo Group Inc. are negotiating amid a shrinking domestic PC market, sources close to the matter said Saturday. The Development Bank of Japan aims to support the joint venture between Japanese electronics maker ...
Takata Corp., whose defective air bag inflators triggered the biggest recall in auto industry history, hired law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP to help it weigh options that could include bankruptcy or a sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Japanese manufacturer might choose to seek ...
A lowering of the eligibility cap for the kōsei nenkin pension plan leaves housewives working part-time with a choice: cut their hours to stay below the new ceiling or work more to offset the pension payments they will now have to make. The post New pension ceiling meant to help low-paid ...
World finance officials promise to cooperate more closely and utilize all their policy tools to bolster an anemic global recovery. The post Global finance leaders pledge closer cooperation amdi anti-trade backlash appeared first on The Japan Times.
Japan’s communications ministry imposed administrative penalties on three phone service providers on Friday for offering excessive discounts to customers buying smartphones. The ministry gave NTT Docomo Inc., KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. until the end of this month to report measures to end the practice. According to the ministry, the ...
The pound sterling’s slump to its lowest in more than 30 years against the dollar this past week in increasingly volatile trading has raised fears that Britain’s exit from the European Union could yet trigger a currency crisis like those of 1967, 1976 or 1992. By some measures, such as ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday showed his resolve to win Diet approval for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact and related legislation during the current extraordinary session ending Nov. 30. “Japan should approve the TPP pact before the other (signatory) countries and build momentum” to put it into force ...
A businessman from China caught rummaging through a corn field in Iowa has been sentenced to three years in prison for stealing trade secrets from U.S. seed corn companies. Mo Hailong, 46, became the subject of an investigation by state and federal authorities in 2011, after DuPont Pioneer security guards ...
The United States is trying to broker an agreement between a host of nations to prohibit unregulated fishing in the international waters of the Arctic Ocean. Such an agreement would be binding and include more countries than a nonbinding agreement that the U.S. entered into with Norway, Denmark, Russia and ...
Global finance leaders on Thursday publicly confronted the rising unpopularity of trade liberalization, saying world economies need to strive for more inclusive growth. With Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump leading a surge of anti-free trade sentiment in the United States, and Britain voting to secede from the European Union, top ...
In the latest sign that the ruling Liberal Democratic Party will not reform a tax break that has long been viewed as a disincentive for working women, Secretary-General Toshihiro Nikai appeared to walk back his earlier support for the reform. The spousal tax break reduces the annual taxable income of ...
The dollar edged up to levels around ¥103.80 in Tokyo on Friday thanks to buying backed by a favorable U.S. economic indicator, but a wait-and-see mood was strong ahead of a U.S. jobs report later in the day. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥103.83-84, up from ¥103.69-69 at ...