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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War. Cheers broke out in the cabin of JetBlue Flight 387 as ...
Stocks gained modestly on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, amid a wait-and-see mood prior to U.S. jobs data for August. The Nikkei average rose 39.44 points, or 0.23 percent, to end at 16,926.84. On Wednesday, it climbed 162.04 points. The Topix gained 7.84 points, or 0.59 percent, to close ...
Capital spending by the nation’s companies increased 3.1 percent in the April to June period from a year earlier, the 13th straight quarterly rise, as a firming yen continued to hurt corporate profits, government data showed Thursday. Business investment by all nonfinancial sectors for purposes such as the building of ...
A former chief scientist for one of the world’s biggest consumer-goods companies says he can make nuclear power cheaper and safer and wants $30 million so that he can prove it. After working 25 years at Unilever PLC, Ian Scott came out of retirement in 2013 to found Moltex Energy ...
For generations, artisans and merchants in Kyoto lived in thousands of traditional machiya townhouses that are steadily disappearing or falling into disrepair. To help restore the wooden-and-tile-roof structures, banks in Kyoto have tailored loans to help contribute to the preservation of architecture in a city that boasts a number of ...
Casual clothing chain Uniqlo is taking its biggest chance in Southeast Asia. The unit of Fast Retailing Co. is opening a store on Singapore’s ritzy Orchard Road that will have 2,700 sq. meters of shopping space on three floors. The store will be Uniqlo’s largest in the region as the ...
The dollar rose to levels near ¥103.30 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, on the back of growing expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve will carry out an interest rate hike as early as next month. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥103.27-27, up from ¥102.37-37 at the same time Tuesday. ...
The key Nikkei average closed at the highest level in over two weeks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, lifted by brisk purchases of large-cap mainstay issues on the back of the yen’s decline against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average soared 162.04 points, or 0.97 percent, to close at ...
Canada will apply to join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Ottawa’s finance department said Wednesday, in a coup for Beijing after Washington tried to dissuade its allies from signing up. “Canada is always looking for ways to create hope and opportunity for our middle class as well as for ...
Invasive weeds have long threatened to erode dunes on a portion of the Chicago lakefront, but the area recently had to contend with a virtual invasion: “Pokemon Go” characters. The game sends players into the real world in search of digital monsters that appear on smartphone screens to be caught, ...
Republican Donald Trump, who has made his criticism of a pending Pacific trade agreement central to his campaign, on Tuesday was to visit a Seattle suburb that is home to a large Boeing Co. plane manufacturing facility that depends heavily on sales to Asian markets. Trump’s campaign has booked the ...
In the latest of a long series of gaffes, Finance Minister Taro Aso has hit out at brokerage workers — a profession he’s responsible for overseeing. “People have a preconception that investing in bonds and stocks is dangerous, and that’s correct,” Aso said at a forum Tuesday in Tokyo. “Most ...
The transport ministry says mileage figures for eight Mitsubishi Motors Corp. models affected by a fuel-efficiency scandal were up to 8.8 percent poorer than their catalog data. The ministry said Tuesday it has called on the automaker to report the correct data to the government and suspend sales of the ...
Speculation of so-called helicopter money refuses to die in Japan, despite repeated denials by Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda. From Japan-based economists to global investors including Templeton Emerging Markets Group Executive Chairman Mark Mobius, there is a reluctance to rule out the controversial policy coming as soon as next ...
Alphabet Inc. will tie up with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. on its Android Pay platform, a person with knowledge of the matter said, the latest move by a technology giant to tap Japan’s rapidly growing digital payments market. Starting as early as this autumn, users of certain Android-based mobile ...
Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, said he wants no further monetary policy easing by the Bank of Japan. “We don’t want the BOJ to go any deeper than now,” Kobayashi told a news conference Tuesday, expressing opposition to additional monetary easing steps ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s newly appointed regional revitalization minister, Kozo Yamamoto, has argued that the leader’s Abenomics economic policy mix has not plateaued but is merely returning to its original form, one that combines financial and fiscal measures. Last month, Abe compiled an economic stimulus package totaling ¥28.1 trillion, including ...
Factory output stagnated in July from the previous month, data showed Wednesday, in a further blow to the world’s third-largest economy. The lackluster result came after a series of disappointing data, which raised a red flag for an economy that stalled in the second quarter. A drop in household spending, ...
One big reason the global economy is spinning its wheels: some of the world’s richest governments are being tightwads. Group of Seven governments have been cutting their investment spending since a brief surge as the global financial crisis took hold. As a share of the group’s gross domestic product, those ...
JX Holdings Inc. and TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK on Wednesday finalized an agreement to form Japan’s biggest oil refiner starting in April. JX Holdings will give 2.55 shares for each TonenGeneral share, the two companies said in a joint statement. The deal values TonenGeneral at ¥965.2 a share based on Tuesday’s ...
SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, on Tuesday disclosed new hacking attacks on its members’ banks as it pressured them to comply with security procedures instituted after February’s high-profile $81 million heist at Bangladesh Bank. In a private letter to clients, SWIFT said new cybertheft attempts — some of them ...