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Leading firms unleash job offers to students, new grads
A number of top firms held ceremonies Monday to give university students and graduates informal employment offers next spring. Many companies began their ceremonies Monday after being green-lighted to issue the informal offers starting Saturday. At Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.’s ceremony in Tokyo, President Takeshi Kunibe noted that circumstances surrounding ...
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Isetan Mitsukoshi opens small tea-themed outlet in Paris
Department store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd. on Friday opened a small outlet in Paris to sell Japanese confectioneries and sundry goods. Previously, Isetan Mitsukoshi ran an outlet that catered mainly to Japanese visiting Europe. This shop, on the ground floor of Maison de la Culture du Japan in western ...
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Apple in talks with Sharp to supply OLED screens for new iPhones
Apple Inc. is in negotiations with Sharp Corp. to secure organic LED displays for the iPhone maker’s next generation of devices, according to a person familiar with the matter. Any supply pact for organic light-emitting diode displays, would hinge on the Osaka-based firm’s output capacity, said the person, who asked ...
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Nishi-Nippon Financial becomes nation’s newest lender after Kyushu banks merge
Regional banks welcomed another player to the sector Monday after two lenders in Kyushu merged to become Nishi-Nippon Financial Holdings Inc. The Fukuoka-based company is the result of a tie-up between Nishi-Nippon City Bank and Bank of Nagasaki. Regional banks nationwide are under pressure to consolidate as they compete for ...
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BOJ chief Kuroda has ruined his chances for second term: Abe aide Nakahara
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has ruined his chances of getting a second full term, according to Nobuyuki Nakahara, who has advised the prime minister on the economy and was an intellectual father of the BOJ’s first run at quantitative easing in 2001. The central bank’s switch to yield-curve ...
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India Giappone
India ratifies Paris climate accord, vows to be solar, wind leader but will need financial aid
India, which accounts for about 4.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, ratified the Paris climate change agreement Sunday at the United Nations, officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet had given its approval Wednesday to ratify the Paris agreement on Oct. 2, coinciding with the birth anniversary of India’s ...
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Germany Inc. execs stand with embattled Deutsche Bank
Germany’s top executives voiced confidence in Deutsche Bank on Sunday, after fears over the lender’s financial health saw shares plummet to a record low. Speaking to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the heads of some of Germany’s biggest companies, including Siemens, Daimler and Munich Re, said the drama of the past ...
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USA Giappone
BOJ seen trying in vain U.S. WWII rate-pegging ploy to spark inflation
In deciding to target bond yields, Japan is deploying a monetary strategy to combat deflation used by its former enemy in World War II. The trouble is that America’s experience back then suggests the tactics probably won’t work on their own. Economists who have studied that period say it was ...
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USA Giappone
San Francisco locals want to charge Lombard Street toll as tourists swarm
Lombard Street, the scenic San Francisco thoroughfare known as the “Crookedest Street in the World,” has become so thronged with gawkers that residents say it feels more like an overcrowded amusement park than a residential road. Cars waiting to drive down the 600-foot-long street often stretch back for three blocks. ...
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USA Giappone
CITES calls on nations to end legal ivory trade in bid to end poaching
The United Nations on Sunday called for the shutdown of all legal domestic ivory markets as it looks to combat poaching and put pressure on countries that continue to trade in elephant tusks. Member states of the U.N.’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES, agreed on ...