Japan needs to significantly increase its carbon tax as soon as possible in order to get on track for meeting its climate goals, according to a former senior official at the Ministry of Finance. ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka Shows Off Creative Chops With Nike Apparel Collection
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US Charges Man With Giving Illegal Drugs to Athletes for Tokyo Olympics
Eric Lira obtained misbranded versions of prescription drugs used to boost production of red blood cells from Central and South America and distributed them to two athletes, prosecutors said ... ( read original story ...)
Texas Man Charged Under New Anti-Doping Law for Allegedly Providing Drugs to Tokyo Olympic Athletes
Eric Lira faces two criminal counts for international sports doping and for a conspiracy to misbrand drugs, according to a criminal complaint. ( read original story ...)
Japan firms want fiscal support, help on yen and commodities
A vast majority of Japanese firms want fiscal support to keep flowing at least through this year, a Reuters poll showed, while two-thirds want help to ease the pain from rising commodity prices and a ... ( read original story ...)
L.A. to honor former restaurant as first Japanese-owned business in Little Tokyo
The Los Angeles City Council today voted to recognize Kame Restaurant, which opened in 1884, as the first Japanese-owned business in Little Tokyo. ( read original story ...)
SEGA Opens up a New Studio Called SEGA Sapporo
The newly established SEGA studio, based in the city of Sapporo, will be taking care of developing new titles for SEGA and debugging existing games. ( read original story ...)
Congressional watchdog calls for stronger regulation of crypto ATMs
It goes deeper into the marketplaces where people sell drugs for crypto and the websites where sex workers can receive crypto for services. Crypto kiosks have been implicated in other forms of crime ... ( read original story ...)
Kim Kardashian, Floyd Maryweather Have EthereumMax Problem: Latest Crypto News
Kim Kardashian West is trending for all the wrong reasons, Meta recruits for the metaverse and investors await the Federal Reserve’s crypto report. ( read original story ...)
Why Japan is betting on railguns for missile defense
A railgun uses electromagnetic energy to accelerate a projectile very, very quickly. However, the US has recently turned away from the tech. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s November current account surplus shrinks 48%
Japan's current account surplus in November contracted 48.2 percent from a year earlier to 897.3 billion yen ($7.8 billion), declining for the fourth straight month, as high energy prices continued to ... ( read original story ...)
5 questions with Yokohama’s Jeff Barna
Jeff Barna, president of CEO of Yokohama Tire, answers 5 questions about where the tire maker has been, where it is today, and what it expects from the year ahead. 2. The pandemic caused a variety of ... ( read original story ...)
Lucky Lottery Winners Get to Meet Japan’s Adorable Panda Twins at The Cubs’ Tokyo Zoo Debut
In response to a surge in COVID cases worldwide, the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, limited their panda cubs' public debut to a select group of animal fans that won a lottery to meet the twins ... ( read original story ...)
Bitcoin trading losses may have cost El Salvador $10 million amid crypto slump, report says
Led by President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador has bought at least 1,391 bitcoins using public funds, according to a Bloomberg estimate. ( read original story ...)
Crypto investing could get a boost as credit-reporting deal to ease borrowing
The deal could allow lenders to more accurately judge the risk profiles of cryptocurrency investors. Some investors could get lower borrowing rates or obtain loans without having to put up collateral. ( read original story ...)
Kim Kardashian is being sued for misleading investors about a crypto scheme
Kim Kardashian shared a post on social media promoting a little-known cryptocurrency token called EthereumMax. “Are you guys into crypto????” she wrote on Instagram, where she has more than 200 ... ( read original story ...)