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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Wrapping up a five-day meeting in Kyushu on Friday, an international fisheries panel deferred an agreement to invoke emergency fishing restrictions for bluefin tuna in the northern Pacific amid concerns that the species is dwindling due to overfishing. Japan had proposed invoking a catch limit for two years if the ...
Hitachi Ltd. started trials of its EMIEW3 humanoid robot at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on Friday to aid foreign visitors to Japan. During the trials through December in the airport’s domestic Terminal 2, the robot will communicate with passengers in Japanese and English at a designated information center as well as ...
Transport ministry officials raided the Tokyo headquarters of scandal-ridden Mitsubishi Motors Corp. on Friday after the government alleged the automaker cheated on mileage ratings on more models than earlier reported. The systematic inflating of mileage numbers first surfaced in April, over minicars eK wagon and eK Space that also were ...
The bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line has thrown ports and retailers around the world into confusion, with giant container ships marooned and merchants worrying whether tons of goods will reach their shelves. The South Korean giant filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday and stopped accepting new cargo. With its ...
It may not have been as obvious as Japanese athletes grabbing gold, silver and bronze for their performances at last month’s Rio Olympics, but Japanese companies had their share of time to shine during the event. Viewers oohed and aahed as images of buildings and apartments projected on the field ...
Apple Inc.’s plan to allow Japanese customers to use iPhones to pay for their daily commute underscores the potential for digital payments to grow in a nation where people still prefer to hold cash. Japanese have for years been using rail passes that double as electronic money cards, which a ...
Samsung says shipments of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have been delayed for quality control testing. A company official said Thursday that the delay was caused by additional tests for quality evaluation. Spokeswoman Sophia Kim said media reports that Samsung halted shipments of the flagship phone are not true. It ...
Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. on Thursday said it is developing a vaccine to prevent the Zika virus, which has been linked to severe birth defects, and has secured funding from a U.S. government agency. Takeda, which is also working on vaccines for other mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, said ...
A three-day international conference on the prospects of nuclear power in the Asia-Pacific region has wrapped up in Manila, finding the stigma-laden source of energy to be increasingly relevant in the region because of its continuing development and rising population, and the growing campaign for lowering carbon emissions amid threats ...
It will take an over 10 percent joint stake in Bitexco Power with a Singaporean bank in a deal expected to be worth tens of millions of dollars.Malaysia's Janakuasa starts work on $2.2 bln power plant in VietnamSouth Korea's Daewoo to build $2.7 bln power plant in Vietnam: reportForeign investors ...
White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathizers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with “relative impunity” and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a study being released on Thursday found. Eighteen prominent white nationalist accounts examined in the study, including the American Nazi Party, have seen a ...
Toyota’s zero-emission vehicle sales in California this year amount to a drop of hydrogen in an ocean of gasoline. The world’s largest automaker has so far sold about 270 fuel cell cars in the state, where it delivered nearly 400,000 gasoline-powered vehicles last year, according to an Edmunds.com analysis of ...
An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and its satellite cargo during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, two days before it had been due to blast off and place the satellite in orbit. SpaceX said there were no injuries and ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Saudi Arabian Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman affirmed Thursday their resolve to work together to achieve planned reforms of the Saudi economy with the potential to deliver significant benefits to Japan. The deputy crown prince, a son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz, doubles as ...
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 ...
Kyushu Railway Co. will make its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Oct. 25, informed sources said Thursday. The TSE is set to approve the stock listing of the railway operator on Sept. 15 at the earliest, the sources said. With the company’s total market capitalization expected to reach ...
The dollar climbed above ¥103.50 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, while a wait-and-see mood strengthened ahead of U.S. jobs data Friday. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥103.56-57, up from ¥103.27-27 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1128-1130, slightly down from $1.1131-1133, and at ¥115.25-29, up ...
FamilyMart Co. and Uny Group Holdings Co. merged on Thursday to create the nation’s second-largest convenience store chain after Seven-Eleven Japan Co. The formation of FamilyMart Uny Holdings Co. marks consolidation in an industry where retailers face intense competition to boost sales in a sputtering economy with a declining population ...
Gourmets in Europe may soon taste a difference in dishes at local Japanese restaurants as the production of authentic katsuobushi — or dried bonito flakes, a crucial ingredient in Japanese cuisine — will shortly begin in France. Makurazaki France Katsuobushi Co., a company headquartered in Makurazaki, Kagoshima Prefecture, has built ...
Leaders of the United States, China and other Group of 20 major economies who meet this weekend say more trade would shore up sluggish global growth but are tightening their own controls on imports. China hopes its status as G-20 host will give it more sway in managing the global ...
The huge back-tax bill European authorities slapped on Apple has put a spotlight on $2.4 trillion in untaxed earnings parked offshore by U.S. companies, a tempting target for governments seeking to strengthen their finances. While Washington lays claim to rights to tax the money, critics say it represents profits transferred ...