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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
When massive tsunami swept away entire towns in northeastern Japan five years ago, Taizo Son filled three shipping containers with emergency supplies and sent them to help the relief effort. Later, he bet almost $100 million of his own money on startups, seeking to transform everything from transportation and education ...
Japan has warned Britain that its exit from the European Union could prompt Japanese financial institutions to relocate from London and listed a raft of concerns from Japanese companies about the transition away from the EU. In a 15-page report published on the eve of a summit of the Group ...
[New Times] It is not often encompassing "business philosophy" paradigms are introduced to refresh the way things are done on the continent, as happened at the-just concluded Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Protesters camping near Native American lands in North Dakota to resist the construction of an oil pipeline, clashed late Saturday with construction company workers who they say destroyed ancient sites. Hundreds of protesters confronted a bulldozer crew in an area known as Cannon Ball, amid the vast grasslands of the ...
The Champs-Elysee was the setting of a mini-air show on Sunday as amateur drone enthusiasts flew their high-tech toys over the famed Paris avenue in the city’s first festival celebrating the gadgets. Concentrating intently, punters guided their remote-controlled flying machines through a brightly colored obstacle course accompanied by commentary worthy ...
Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on Sunday criticized Donald Trump’s potential plan to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and said the U.S. presidential candidate will likely lose the Nov. 8 election. Speaking on CTV’s “Question Period” politics talk show, Mulroney, who in the 1980s signed a ...
Idemitsu Kosan Co.’s two largest shareholders have unanimously adopted resolutions seeking to block the major oil wholesaler’s merger with peer Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. along with the Idemitsu founding family at an extraordinary stockholders’ meeting. The two owner entities — the Idemitsu Culture and Welfare Foundation and the Idemitsu Museum ...
Sin City and Asian investors are going all in on Chinese tourism as some of Las Vegas’ latest developments on and off the Strip target Chinese nationals and Chinese-Americans. The Chinese have been regulars along the resort corridor for decades. Now, officials and developers intent on capitalizing on burgeoning Chinese ...
The problems that sank South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping last week could be just the tip of the iceberg, with the long global downturn leaving the industry burdened by excess capacity. With growth refusing to budge and consumer demand still slack, the world’s freight carriers have more ships than they can ...
When he worked in Silicon Valley, venture investor James Riney was used to aggressive entrepreneurs who pitched him for financing any time they got a two-minute opening. Now that he’s in Tokyo, the culture is so different he’s changed his ways. Startup founders are so timid about asking for money ...
Japan is the third biggest economy in the world, after the US and China.
Finance Minister Taro Aso has urged companies to raise investment and wages as their retained earnings continue to increase. At a news conference on Friday, Aso complained about companies’ use of money, saying the proportion of funds spent on business investment should be raised further. Capital spending growth has been ...
India is unlikely to give French naval contractor DCNS a proposed order for three new submarines, in addition to the six it is already building in the country, following the leak of secret data about its capabilities, Indian defense officials said. Details of the Scorpene submarine were published in the ...
U.S. employment growth slowed more than expected in August after two straight months of robust gains, and wages were tepid, which could effectively rule out an interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve this month. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 151,000 jobs last month after an upwardly revised 275,000 increase in ...
Source: World Food Programme Country: South Sudan, UgandaTo do this, and given severe funding shortfalls, the organization announced that it would have to reduce rations for all refugees who arrived in Uganda before July 2015.1 September 2016 – Halima, aged 22, is from the village of Yei in South Sudan. Now, ...
Turkey’s Vestel announced on Sept. 1 a strategic brand license agreement with Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation
The bankruptcy of the Hanjin Shipping containership company has caused global transportation chaos, with gigantic containerships stuck and merchants worried goods they ordered may not reach store shelves. The South Korean company filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday and stopped accepting new cargo. Ships from China to Canada have been refused ...
The dollar was steady around ¥103.60 in Tokyo trading late Friday, with all eyes on U.S. jobs data for August, to be released later in the day, amid growing expectations of an interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve later this year. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥103.57-58, ...
The key Nikkei average turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, dragged down by profit-taking and position-adjustment selling prior to the release of U.S. government employment data for August. The 225-issue Nikkei average edged down 1.16 points, or 0.01 percent, to end at 16,925.68. On Thursday, the key market ...
A majority of Japanese people are cautious about using credit cards, according to the results of the Cabinet Office’s first public opinion survey on the payment method released Thursday. In the survey, 57.9 percent of respondents were negative about actively using credit cards, while 39.8 percent were positive. As reasons ...
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will form a group by the end of the month to examine how to best collect and compile economic statistics that are used in key measures including gross domestic product, party lawmaker Yoshimasa Hayashi said. Hayashi, 55, added that he will chair the group and ...