Japan is considering the deployment of more than 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to increase its ability to counter growing regional threats from China, local newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported on ... ( read original story ...)
Japan PM Kishida infected with COVID-19 – NHK
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has been infected with COVID-19 and is recuperating at his official residence, public broadcaster NHK reported on Sunday.
Japan’s largest bank will back hydrogen and remains committed to gas
MUFG, one of the largest lenders to energy projects, says carbon capture and storage will help it support LNG and hydrogen while meeting net zero commitments.
Kraken Cracks Open Books To Prove Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Cardano, And Tether Reserves As Crypto Exchanges Draw Scrutiny
He believes that if crypto audits had existed back then, tripwires could have been triggered and the damage lessened. Perhaps the same goes for now bankrupt crypto brokers such as Celsius and Voyager.
Girl arrested over knife attack in Tokyo’s Shibuya wanted ‘death penalty’
A teenage girl arrested over a random attack with a knife in Tokyo's Shibuya district has said she stabbed two people she came across ... ( read original story ...)
12,000 fireworks light up night sky over Tokyo, 1st time in 3 years
The night sky over Tokyo was a blaze of color as the capital held its first fireworks display in three years on Aug. 20. ( read original story ...)
A Romance Scammer Took All Your Crypto. Who Ya Gonna Call?
Love scams hit a record high last year, with fraudsters fooling lonely hearts into sending their life savings in hard-to-recover cryptocurrency.
Sudden crypto market drop sends bitcoin below $22,000
Bitcoin on Friday fell to its lowest level in more than three weeks, dipping below $22,000 amid a sudden crypto sell-off in early European trading. Bitcoin briefly plunged from $22,738 to below ...
Japan considers deploying long-range missiles to counter China – Yomiuri
Japan is considering the deployment of 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to boost its counterattack capability against China, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday. ( read original story ...)
Japan May Stockpile More Than 1,000 Missiles, Yomiuri Reports
Japan is considering amassing an arsenal of more than 1,000 of its planned long-range missiles, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, citing unidentified people with knowledge of the plans. ( read original story ...)
From Aramco to Visa, here are top 10 largest IPOs of all time
NTT Mobile Communication Network This Tokyo-based telecommunications player raised $18.1 billion when its IPO was floated on 22 October 1998. Headquartered in San Francisco, this company specializes ...
SoftBank sold Alibaba shares to reassure investors, finance chief admits
SoftBank sold a large part of its stake in Alibaba to “instantly show” investors its finances were solid after logging a record quarterly loss of $23bn, the technology conglomerate’s chief financial ...
Sister of in-utero A-bomb survivor shares story and urges world to abolish nuclear weapons
I would ask only that my brother get a chance to live in a world with no atomic bombs, no nuclear weapons -- a world without war." These were the words Yoko Nakai, 71, wrote in a letter addressed to ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: Govt. investigates mistreatment of pregnant foreign trainees for the first time
Japan gov't investigating mistreatment of pregnant foreign trainees ] 20 August 2022. The Japanese government is conducting a survey to determine whether foreign technical traine ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsui nears decision to join new Sakhalin-2 operator, Nikkei reports
Japanese trading firm Mitsui & Co is close to making a final decision to join a new Russian operator for the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, the Nikkei newspaper said, without citing ...
Japan is due for a mega earthquake, with experts warning many people are unprepared — but an elite rescue squad is ready
Earthquakes are a fact of life in Japan, but authorities are warning the population is underprepared for a long-anticipated mega quake that could leave more than 4 million people stranded, and ... ( read original story ...)