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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
After about a half-hour drive on an almost straight road by car from an airport in Assaluyeh on the Persian Gulf coast in southern Iran, high stacks emitting orange flames of burning natural gas begin to come into view against a backdrop of mountains. The flames tower over huge gas ...
The Indian government on Saturday named insider Urjit Patel as the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India, to replace popular central banker Raghuram Rajan when his term ends in September. “Dr. Urjit R Patel new Governor of RBI,” Frank Noronha, principal spokesperson for the Indian government, posted on ...
A small hotel in the city of Fukuoka is adopting “Internet of Things” technology so some of its guests can adjust their room conditions via smartphone. And Hostel opened Friday as Japan’s first inn to fully use IoT technology, the operator said. Sony Corp., Kyushu University and IT ventures contributed ...
Cheap instant “bubble tea” has become one of Taiwan’s best-known culinary exports. Now a new wave of entrepreneurs hopes a high-end modern take on traditional brews will also be sipped worldwide. Taiwan has been producing tea for more than 200 years, and a cup of the island’s famous oolong — ...
The Japan Tourism Agency plans to exempt domestically produced alcoholic drinks such as sake from the liquor tax for foreign tourists as part of efforts to boost regional economies, agency officials said on Saturday.
PHNOM PENH - Despite expressing some unhappy feelings about their business operations in Cambodia, Japan has injected more investments to this small Southeast Asian nation in recent years.
London bills itself as a global city, the world’s biggest financial center and a creative hub to rival New York. Until now, though, getting home after midnight meant taking the bus. Not anymore. The London Underground is starting its first-ever overnight service, a move city leaders hope will make the ...
Japanese companies have jointly started work to develop high-precision three-dimensional maps that will support autonomous driving technologies. Enhancing the safety of autonomous driving requires more detailed information than the capability of exiting car navigation systems, such as the numbers of traffic lanes and their widths, the locations of traffic lights, ...
The dollar repeated minor fluctuations mostly in a range moderately above ¥100 in Tokyo trading Friday, with a number of players still off from the market for summer break. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.14-14, up from ¥100.02-03 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.1325-1325, ...
The government plans to promote the development of artificial intelligence technology in cooperation with other entities for use in medical, manufacturing and other sectors to mitigate the expected labor shortages that will result from an aging society, officials said Friday. The public-private initiative will involve 20 firms and research institutions ...
Japan’s bond investors are so desperate for yield that more and more of them are putting money in notes from insurers whose value can be wiped out by unexpectedly strong hurricanes or earthquakes. Catastrophe bonds in the U.S. yield 3.3 percent on average, a Swiss RE AG index shows, beating ...
Japanese manufacturers’ mood soured in August to its lowest since 2013, when the central bank embarked on aggressive monetary easing, a poll has shown, reflecting the pain caused by a rising yen and highlighting the huge task facing policymakers to generate growth. The Reuters Tankan, which tracks the Bank of ...
The government is poised to offer ¥3 trillion ($29.6 billion) in loans to Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) in an attempt to expedite high-speed maglev services between Tokyo and Osaka by up to eight years, government sources said. Under the plan — which involves amending the law to legalize ...
Japan Airlines will offer in-flight meals created by Shiseido Parlour Co. on flights bound for Honolulu starting Sept. 1. The one-year campaign will target premium economy and economy class passengers aboard flights departing from three Japanese international airports, the airline said Thursday. The autumn menu will include beef stew, bacon ...
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation made overseas investments and loans totaling ¥1.2 trillion from April to June, its highest ever for the quarter, it was learned Friday. The sum is more than six times the level a year earlier, reflecting active lending for mergers and acquisitions by Japanese companies ...
Department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. is considering opening a store in the Philippines, sources said Friday. The company is discussing the development of a department store-style facility with residential housing in a suburb of Manila. The project would be in partnership with Nomura Real Estate Development Co. It ...
(Teleborsa) - Migliora l'indice dell'attività complessiva in Giappone relativo al mese di giugno, segnalando una ripresa dell'economia nonostante la debolezza del settore edile. Secondo il...
The week after winning his sixth career Olympic gold in Rio, U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte should have been doing a victory lap, cashing in on his performance with fresh sponsorship deals. Instead, one of America’s most decorated swimmers is accused by Brazilian police of inventing a story about an armed ...
Twitter said Thursday it has suspended 360,000 accounts since mid-2015 for violating its policies banning the promotion of terrorism and violent extremism. The San Francisco-based company said in a blog post that it has also made progress in preventing users who were suspended from immediately returning to the platform using ...
Stocks rebounded moderately on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, supported by buybacks on the back of a pause in the yen’s strengthening against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average gained 59.81 points, or 0.36 percent, to finish at 16,545.82. On Thursday, the key market gauge lost 259.63 points. The Topix ...
As the nation slowly turns its eye to the concerns and needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, more companies are starting to respect sexual minorities as employees as well as consumers. Given such changes, advertising giant Hakuhodo DY Holdings Inc. launched in June a think tank, Japan LGBT ...