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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The latest revolutionary robot isn’t the metallic, costly machine you’d expect: It’s squishy like Silly Putty, wireless, battery-less and made for pennies by a 3-D printer. Meet Octobot. It looks like a tiny octopus and is designed to mimic that slithery creature to get through cracks and tight places, making ...
Iran and Ecuador on Wednesday discussed ways that the two countries can strengthen oil prices as Iran signals it may support joint efforts by exporters to prop up flagging crude. Iran has been boosting output since Western sanctions were eased in January. Tehran refused to join a previous attempt this ...
South Korea and Japan will hold a finance ministers' meeting this weekend to discuss various economic and financial topi
(Teleborsa) - Migliorano le condizioni economiche in Giappone, come segnala il superindice, che allontana i timori di un nuovo indebolimento della congiuntura. Il leading indicator del Giappone...
Hon Hai Group of Taiwan, which acquired Japan's Sharp Corp., will buy back the TV business interests overseas once owned by Sharp as part of an effort to normalize Sharp's business operation. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun on August 23, Sharp will dispatch managers to the acquirers of its TV ...
The dollar held firmer at around ¥100.30 in Tokyo on Wednesday amid muted trading ahead of a key economic event in the United States later this week. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.27-28, up from ¥100.10-10 the same time Tuesday. The euro was at $1.1297-1297, down from $1.1344-1345, ...
The Cabinet approved Wednesday a draft second extra budget for fiscal 2016 to stimulate the flagging economy, bringing total public outlays for the year through March to over ¥100 trillion ($996 billion). The extra budget reflects Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s push to lift the world’s third-biggest economy out of chronic ...
Stocks posted a modest rebound Wednesday, buoyed by buybacks of large-cap mainstay issues that reflected a pause in the yen’s advance against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 99.94 points, or 0.61 percent, to end at 16,597.30 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Tuesday, the key market gauge fell ...
The upcoming sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD VI, is expected to accelerate Japanese investment in the continent’s increasingly attractive consumer markets. A range of firms are already present or are about to enter, ranging from a motorcycle manufacturer to a chicken restaurant operator and a maker ...
The Financial Services Agency is extending provisions that help regional financial institutions get public funds in response to risks posed by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, sources say. The regulator, which oversees banks, securities brokerages and other financial institutions, is extending by five years a program that allows ...
Japan should spend ¥10 trillion ($99.83 billion) on fiscal stimulus both in fiscal 2017 and 2018 to offset the economy’s lack of demand and eliminate the risk of deflation, an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said. Abe has already compiled a stimulus package for the current fiscal year with ...
Lawson HMV Entertainment Inc. will open a record store in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward to tap the growing popularity of retro music technology, sources say. Aside from collectors, vinyl is becoming popular with younger generations of music fans at a time when compact disc sales are falling as more people flock ...
Japan’s minimum wage will rise ¥25 on year to ¥823 on average in fiscal 2016, according to the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry. This will mark the sharpest growth in the minimum wage since Japan began evaluating it by the hour instead of as a daily wage in fiscal 2002. ...
Members of Congress are demanding more information on why the price for lifesaving EpiPens has skyrocketed. EpiPens are injection devices used to ward off potentially fatal allergic reactions, and the price has surged in recent years. A two-dose package cost around $94 nine years ago. The average cost was more ...
The government of Japan and business organizations are pushing forward with a plan to introduce a scheme to allow workers to leave their work early on the last Friday of the month at 3 pm so that they can go out and spend more. According to the Sankei Shimbun on ...
The top diplomats of South Korea, China and Japan began their trilateral meeting in Tokyo on Wednesday to discuss ways t
One of the last two Howard Johnson restaurants will close in a couple of weeks, taking with it its fried clam strips and ice cream — and a slice of roadside Americana. Howard Johnson hotel owner Sally Patel says the last day for the restaurant at her hotel in Bangor, ...
TOKYO (AFP) -- Foreign ministers from Japan, China and South Korea began a two-day meeting on Tuesday with their countri
Kobe Bryant ha deciso di dedicarsi alla finanza. Dopo aver lasciato il campo, l'ex stella del basket Nba, 38 anni, ha deciso di cambiare rotta e di lanciare un fondo di venture capital...
It’s not entirely plain sailing, but Japan Inc. is increasingly investing in Cambodia. Japan was the third-largest foreign investor in 2015, with 250 companies setting up shop. China led the field, with 1,055 firms, and South Korea followed, with 278. Japanese investment ranges from imports and exports, tourism, factories, consulting ...
Two Japanese firms and a Taiwanese company have agreed to plead guilty to fixing prices of electrolytic capacitors sold in the United States and elsewhere, the U.S. Justice Department said Monday. Rubycon Corp. and Elna Co., both of Japan, and Holy Stone Holdings Co. of Taiwan have also agreed to ...