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Profit-taking caps dollar at around ¥113
The dollar was mostly stuck around ¥113 and refused to chase higher ground in Tokyo trading Monday, pressured by selling to lock in profits. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥112.87-88, down from ¥112.94-95 the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1087-1087, down from $1.1117-1118, and at ¥125.14-15, ...
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Giappone
Toshiba, Sharp unions OK’d to drop out of ‘shunto’ wage talks
The Japanese Electrical Electronic & Information Union (JEIU) on Monday allowed the labor unions of troubled Toshiba Corp. and Sharp Corp. to pull out of the industry’s annual wage talks due to weak earnings. Although the umbrella body of electronics unions will this spring request across-the-board monthly pay hikes of ...
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Mitsubishi Electric develops novel spoken word display technology
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has combined its voice-recognition and touch-screen technologies to enable users to display their spoken words on a tablet or a smartphone by dragging their finger on the screen. As early as fiscal 2017, Mitsubishi Electric will release a special application based on the technology, combined with a ...
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Giappone
Side effects possible if negative rates deepen, ex-BOJ official says
The Bank of Japan’s new negative interest rate policy may bring “side effects” if the central bank further pushes rates into the red, a former BOJ chief economist warns. Hideo Hayakawa, who was an executive director at the BOJ before he retired in 2013, said on a NHK television discussion ...
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Samsung launches new campaign against Apple with Galaxy S7, virtual reality gear
Samsung Electronics Co. showed off virtual reality hardware alongside its latest Galaxy S7 smartphones, in its latest attempt to breathe life into its premium line and wrest ascendancy back from Apple Inc. The new phones go on sale on March 11 sporting a 5.1-inch screen using its own Exynos or ...
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IHI to promote aero-engines unit chief Mitsuoka to president
IHI Corp. plans to promote its aero-engines unit chief Tsugio Mitsuoka to president, replacing Tamotsu Saito, sources familiar with the matter said Monday. The appointment will be effective April 1. Managing Executive Officer Mitsuoka, 61, has overseen an expansion of sales and profit at the aero-engines business. Saito, 63, will ...
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Denso, NTT Docomo to cooperate on self-driving technology
Auto parts maker Denso Corp. and mobile phone carrier NTT Docomo Inc. will work together in developing a vehicle control system for automated driving and advanced driver assistance. They said Monday that the LTE and next-generation 5G mobile standards will be used to develop a system that lets vehicles merge ...
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Giappone
FBI could have unlocked terrorist’s iPhone had county installed paid-for common tech
The county government that owned the iPhone at the heart of legal battle between Apple and the Justice Department paid for but never installed a feature that would have allowed the FBI to easily and immediately unlock the phone. The phone is central to a terrorism investigation into the December ...
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Motivado por ascenso en encuestas, Guzmán acentúa deslinde de Nadine Heredia
Consolidado en el segundo lugar por las recientes encuestas, Julio Guzmán arremetió contra el gobierno para deslindar del mote de “candidato de Palacio” que intentan imponer sus rivales. Esto porque el reciente mensaje en Twitter de Nadine Heredia dio pie para reforzar la versión de presuntas cercanías entre el nacionalismo ...
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Capacitan a 4 mil policías en uso de la fuerza con observancia de los DDHH
A fin de que el país tenga una Policía que observe los derechos fundamentales y a la vez garantice la seguridad y paz social, la Dirección General para la Seguridad Democrática del Ministerio del Interior impulsa un proceso para capacitar a los efectivos del orden en la aplicación del uso ...