Japan’s largest telecom company Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. priced one of the world’s biggest corporate green bond offerings ever on Friday, as regulators globally increase oversight of such ... ( read original story ...)
Cartoon dreams: Netflix’s Japan anime school targets booming demand
Armed with a set of pencils and a feather to sweep away eraser dust, Hitomi Tateno is training the next generation of anime artists at a new Netflix-funded academy as global demand for the Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
Restrictions to be lifted for restaurants and bars in Tokyo area
Restrictions on the business hours of bars and restaurants in Tokyo and nearby prefectures are expected to be fully lifted Monday as improvement in the infection situation has been seen in Tokyo and ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Private-Sector Activity Grows for First Time in 6 Months – PMI
Japan's factory activity growth in October picked up from the previous month, while that of the services sector expanded for the first time in 21 months after an easing of coronavirus pandemic ... ( read original story ...)
Did You Know? Vending Machines In Japan Sell Flights To Surprise Destinations
Japan is known as a country of innovation and cutting-edge facilities. As Vice Magazine [https://www.vice.com/en/topic/vice-magazine] recently reported, Japan-based airline, Peach Aviation ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s consumer inflation turns positive as energy costs rise
Japan's core consumer prices rose in September for the first time since the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, a sign that rising energy and raw material costs are gradually ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s latest big health care listing of 2021 stumbles out of the gate
Medical device maker PHC Holdings Corp. listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange recently, raising around ¥20 billion (US$175 million). The listing was touted as the biggest IPO in Japan since 2018 but ... ( read original story ...)
Mokuyobi Opens First Flagship Store in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo
Mokuyobi has opened their first brick-and-mortar store in Little Tokyo’s Japanese Village Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, offering ... ( read original story ...)
Hallman Gives SET Esports iRacing Rallycross World Championship Team Points Lead with Barcelona Victory
Images via Justin Melillo For the second week in a row, it was a SET Esports driver on top of the podium in Wednesday’s iRacing Rallycross World Championship presented by Yokohama event from Circuit ... ( read original story ...)
Sakurazaka46 Debut at No. 1 as Stray Kids Soar to No. 2 on Japan Hot 100
Sakurazaka46 launch at No. 1 on this week’s Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Oct. 11 to 17, with its latest single called “Nagaredama.” ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese company aims to introduce tipping culture to Japan with ‘tip tickets’
A Japanese company has launched an effort to introduce tipping culture across Japan to motivate employees and help restaurants that suffered losses amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Culture introduction: ... ( read original story ...)
You Can Get This Free Crypto—If the ‘Orb’ Scans Your Eye
Sam Altman wants to give every person on the planet free money—or rather free cryptocurrency. It’s a lofty goal that commands a lofty name: Worldcoin. Co-founded by Altman earlier this year, the ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Custodian Anchorage Hires Sales Head Away From Celsius
Crypto custodian Anchorage Digital has poached an executive from digital-assets lender Celsius as its incoming global head of sales, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Subscribe for f ... ( read original story ...)
Robinhood crypto wallet waitlist tops 1 million customers, CEO says
"Crypto is certainly here to stay as an asset class," Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev added in discussing the company's crypto wallet. ( read original story ...)
Bond giant Pimco says it’s ready to embrace crypto, which it sees as a potential store of value and inflation hedge
Pimco has already dipped its toe into digital assets via investments in crypto-linked securities, its CIO Daniel Ivascyn told CNBC. ( read original story ...)
Crypto exchange FTX raises $420 million from 69 investors, in meme funding round
FTX is one of the world's largest digital currency exchanges, competing with the likes of Coinbase, Binance and Kraken. ( read original story ...)