An unknown user or company sent $130 in Ethereum (ETH) on June 10. It shocked the crypto community with a fee of $2.6 million. ( read original story ...)
Sane’s summer move still on, as Bayern plan new strategy
Bayern Munich are set to employ a new tactic in their bid to sign Leroy Sane from Manchester City. Sane has been linked with a move to the Bundesliga giants since last summer, and he appeared to be ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Games will not be done with splendour, but will be simplified, says CEO Muto
CEO Toshiro Muto said on Wednesday that the rearranged Olympics will "not be done with grand splendour", but will be simplified. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Olympics talk of simplifying, but no specifics so far
Tokyo organizers want to somehow simplify next year's postponed Olympics to keep costs down. Estimates in Japan say the delay alone could cost ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo 2020: Olympics will be ‘simplified’ in 2021
Tokyo 2020 chief executive Toshiro Muto added that the Olympics will "not be done with grand splendour". Organisers said that they are working on more than 200 ideas to simplify and reduce costs for ... ( read original story ...)
Blockchain And Crypto Need To Copy Banks, And That Is A Good Thing
To go mainstream, blockchain and crypto organizations might have to copy the very same banks they were intended to disrupt. ( read original story ...)
Top 10 books about Tokyo
From quiet stories of domestic life to accounts of horrific crime, these books introduce the reader to a vast, almost unknowable city ... ( read original story ...)
Olympic athletes face bans if they make Black Lives Matters protests at Tokyo Games
According to the Olympic Charter 'no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.' ... ( read original story ...)
14% of people infected with coronavirus in Sapporo since May linked to karaoke bars
The local government of this northern Japan city announced on June 9 that 27, or about 14%, of 193 people who had tested positive for the n ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mizuho says virus-related loan requests have reached $155 billion
Mizuho Financial Group Inc has seen coronavirus-related loan requests reach 17 trillion yen ($155 billion) since the outbreak, and is bracing for further demand from companies battling to ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo is the third most expensive city in the world to live in
Multinational consulting firm Mercer’s 2020 Cost of Living Survey has determined that Tokyo comes in third for the most expensive city to live in as an expat. The city was ranked second in 2019, but ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s AnGes speeds towards 2021 rollout in coronavirus ‘vaccine war’
Japanese biotech AnGes Inc expects its coronavirus vaccine to be ready as early as the first half of 2021, if it can overcome supply chain and production hurdles, the company's founder said. The Osaka ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s debt mountain: How is it sustainable?
Already the global leader in accumulating debt, Japan is adding nearly $2 trillion to its mountain this fiscal year with record stimulus packages ... ( read original story ...)
‘Ridiculous’: China, scientists dismiss Harvard study suggesting Covid-19 was spreading in Wuhan in August
Beijing dismissed as “ridiculous” a Harvard Medical School study of hospital traffic and search engine data that suggested the new coronavirus may already have been spreading in China last August, and ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo reports 18 new coronavirus cases, may lift city alert by Friday
Across Japan, 45 new infections were confirmed Tuesday, raising the total number of cases to 17,929, with 936 deaths. ( read original story ...)
Tencent targets Japanese anime and manga to jump-start global growth
The Chinese firm sees Japan's entertainment exports as being ripe for optimization, with better distribution and marketing generating vastly greater revenues. ( read original story ...)