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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
Asahi Group Holdings said Monday that it will recall some 60,000 packs of baby food products sold by its Asahi Group Foods Ltd. unit, after some were found to contain pieces of resin. Slices of blue resin, the largest about 4 cm, were detected in two rice porridge products under ...
Nairobi, 29 août (APS) - L'Agence nationale pour la promotion de l'investissement et des grands travaux (APIX) et l'Agence de promotion des investissements au Kenya (KenInvest) ont signé, dimanche à Nairobi (Kenya), une convention de partenariat en marge de la 6eme Conférence internationale de Tokyo sur le développement de l'Afrique ...
After two aborted test flights in as many days tied to a problematic air-conditioning system, Japan’s first locally built passenger jet was back for checks and fixes amid delays to a program aimed at challenging the dominance of Brazil’s Embraer SA and Canada’s Bombardier Inc. Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., the builder ...
Takata Corp., the auto-parts maker behind the industry’s largest-ever safety recall, said the truck of a subcontractor that was transporting air bag inflators and propellant exploded last week in Texas, killing one person and injuring four more. The truck was involved in an accident and caught fire on Aug. 22, ...
The three mega-banks said they will expand their businesses in Africa, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge over the weekend to bolster measures to boost investment in the resource-rich continent. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Mizuho Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ are aiming to help Japanese companies tap into ...
The dollar surged to levels around ¥102.30 in Tokyo trading Monday, after Friday’s closely watched speech by U.S. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen and another senior Fed official boosted expectations for an interest rate hike this year. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102.29-30, up from ¥100.41-43 at the ...
Shares staged a powerful rally Monday, helped by the yen’s sharp contraction against the dollar sparked by hawkish comments by senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve. The 225-issue Nikkei average jumped 376.78 points, or 2.30 percent, to end at 16,737.49 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Friday, the key ...
The maker of the My Number social security and taxation identification cards plans to seek damages from parties including Fujitsu Ltd., after delays led to additional costs in rolling out the system. A system developed by Fujitsu that was used to distribute the cards has been blamed for the delays. ...
Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel, the luxury inn that counts Marilyn Monroe among past guests, raised room rates last year to levels it last charged before the bubble economy imploded in the early 1990s. A surging yen now threatens those gains. With signs of spending from foreign tourists starting to wane as ...
Local and labor authorities have opened a job placement office Monday for people 50 years old and above in Kitakyushu. The office, named Senior Hello Work Tobata, is the first public employment security office targeting the older generation in Japan, officials said. Statistics show that the ratio of job seekers ...
ANA Holdings Inc., which has canceled more than a dozen Dreamliner flights since last week, found broken turbines on three Boeing 787s driven by engines made by Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC. The broken turbine blade parts damaged other sections of the engine when they snapped off, Maho Ito, a spokeswoman at ...
Japan’s biggest-trading house has had its fill of commodities. After posting its first annual loss in post-World War II history amid the collapse in commodity prices, Mitsubishi Corp. is shifting away from raw materials to make sure it never happens again. That process is going to take at least three ...
A total of 73 deals have been signed in an unprecedented move to boost trade between Africa and Japan.
In view of the increasing number of foreign visitors to Japan, Fujita Kanko Inc., a Tokyo-based hotel chain, is stepping up efforts to train female staff in providing service in the style of okami at Japanese ryokan (inns). The okami is the chief female manager at ryokan, inns that cater ...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday in Nairobi, Kenya that Nigeria will be one of the most attractive and easiest places of doing business in the world by 2019. Speaking at a plenary session on “Dialogue with the Private Sector” at the sixth Tokyo International Conference for African Development (TICAD ...
Says Nigeria will devote more funds to Agriculture next year President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget. Speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend on the margins of the sixth ...
A passenger jet being developed by Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp. aborted its second attempt to head to the United States on Sunday when an air conditioning problem that thwarted its first bid reoccurred. The Mitsubishi Regional Jet, which has been mired in a series of development delays, left Nagoya at around ...
Starting early next year, travelers on some Lufthansa flights in Europe will be able to surf the web using Wi-Fi that promises speeds and coverage that trounce existing offerings. The network, which will use Inmarsat PLC’s satellites and Deutsche Telekom AG towers on the ground, aims to let business travelers ...
Japan and South Korea agreed Saturday to launch talks on resuming a currency swap deal, reflecting newly cooperative relations between the two neighbors. The two began operating a swap agreement in 2001, but testy ties precluded any effort to extend or renew it when it expired in February last year. ...
Japanese companies have geared up to operate in Africa in recent years, with demand for products such as food and medicine growing in the resource-rich continent on the back of population booms in many countries. At the Japan-led Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)that convened in Nairobi over the ...
African leaders were united in calling for increased trade ties between the continent and Japan as the Sixth Tokyo International Conference of African Development kicked off in Nairobi at the weekend.