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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar fell around ¥100 in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, hit by selling as stock prices retreated. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.10-10, down from ¥100.77-77 at the same time Monday. The euro was at $1.1344-1345, up from $1.1281-1282, and at ¥113.56-57, down from ¥113.69-70. The dollar moved ...
The government plans to set its second supplementary budget for fiscal 2016 at ¥4.114 trillion on a general-account basis, informed sources said. The extra budget will finance a ¥28.1-trillion stimulus package compiled earlier this month. Including an extra budget for a special account for reconstruction after the March 2011 disasters ...
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday as the yen gained against the dollar in the afternoon. The Nikkei average fell 100.83 points, or 0.61 percent, to end at 16,497.36. On Monday, it rose 52.37 points. The Topix index lost 6.12 points, or 0.47 percent, to end ...
All Nippon Airways Co. is considering launching tours that allow pet dogs to travel in the cabin with their owners. ANA was inspired by the success of a trial charter it conducted in late May. The package tour saw 87 passengers fly with their 44 dogs from Narita airport to ...
Sony Corp. and Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. are considering teaming up to offer household services based on so-called internet of things technology, subsidiaries of the two firms said Tuesday. Under the envisaged partnership, Sony Mobile Communications Inc. and Tepco Energy Partner Inc. hope to enable customers to control ...
Companies across Japan have a new name in their top 10 shareholder lists: the world’s largest pension fund. The ¥134 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund is the top owner of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Honda Motor Co. and at least 119 other Tokyo-listed firms, according to Bloomberg analysis after ...
Global auto sales are expected to rise 1 percent in 2017 from levels this year to nearly 90.59 million vehicles, a research firm has said. The rise will reflect a recovery in demand from Asia and emerging economies in particular. The increase in sales will offset a slump in advanced ...
Less than two months in office, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is getting high marks from the business community for policies that could engineer an economic surge and companies say they are making new investments as a result. While Duterte may be getting headlines for a bloody war against drug dealers ...
The leaders of the eurozone’s biggest economies held talks on Monday in the aftermath of Britain’s shock decision to leave the European Union and said Europe had to turn its back on populists who blamed Brussels for all its problems. Speaking on an aircraft carrier off the Italian island of ...
The new president of Sharp Corp., Tai Jeng-wu, on Monday revealed details of his plans for the struggling electronics maker, including pledging full-fledged structural reforms. Tai, also the No. 2 man of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which acquired a majority stake in Sharp this month, made the comment ...
TOKYO - Global auto sales in 2017 are expected to rise 1% from this year to 90,592,000 vehicles as a continued sales slump in advanced economies will be offset by a recovery in demand from Asia and other emerging economies, a Japanese research firm said Monday.
Swimwear maker Speedo and luxury retailer Ralph Lauren Corp. ended their sponsorship contracts with Ryan Lochte, days after the U.S. swimmer admitted to exaggerating his story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio during the Olympics. The incident embarrassed the host city, angered the local police and government and dominated ...
[Ethiopian Herald] The establishment of JETRO Addis Ababa is the starting line to strengthen business support systems in Africa.
Nomura Holdings Inc. plans to hire bankers in the United States, resuming a push to boost investment banking in a market that remains a priority for Japan’s biggest brokerage following a round of cost cuts. The Tokyo-based firm anticipates rising volumes of mergers and stock offerings in the U.S., said ...
The dollar gained ground moderately to around ¥100.80 in Tokyo trading Monday, thanks to rekindled expectations for an early U.S. rate hike and further monetary easing by the Bank of Japan. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.77-77, up from ¥100.14-14 at the same time Friday. The euro was ...
Stocks extended their gains Monday, supported by the yen’s easing against the dollar and other major currencies. The Nikkei average rose 52.37 points, or 0.32 percent, to end at 16,598.19 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Friday, it climbed 59.81 points. The Topix index grew 8.01 points, or 0.62 percent, ...
Yoshinori Nomura felt like weeping. It was the morning of June 24, Brexit day, and markets were moving against him. Well, not against him, exactly. It was the hedge fund manager’s self-learning computer program that had placed the bet, selling Japanese stock-index futures before a sizable market advance. Nomura had ...
Renesas Electronics Corp. said Monday it is considering acquiring U.S. chipmaker Intersil Corp., but revealed few details of the prospective deal. The acquisition could be worth hundreds of billions of yen and an agreement may be reached as early as this month, sources with knowledge of the matter said. Renesas ...
The spending power of Chinese tourists in Japan is so impressive there’s a special word for it: bakugai, or explosive buying. While the soaring yen this year has threatened to curb tourists’ enthusiasm, the latest figures from the Japan National Tourism Organization show that 731,400 Chinese visitors flocked to the ...
There is a “sufficient chance” the Bank of Japan will add to its unprecedented easing at next month’s policy meeting, Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said in a recent interview published in the Sankei newspaper. The BOJ won’t hesitate to act based on discussions on the results of a comprehensive review at ...
Heavy rain that brought record flooding to Louisiana recently has put a damper on the nation’s harvest of rice, a food staple that usually likes water as it grows but can’t be gathered by machine if fields are inundated. While rice is an aquatic plant, this is the time of ...