TOKYO: Chip design firm Socionext Inc extended gains to more than 11% in its Tokyo debut after completing Japan’s largest initial public offering (IPO) this year, defying recent investor pessimism ...
Japan Overall Bank Lending Climbs 2.3% On Year In September
The value of overall bank lending in Japan was up 2.3 percent on year in September, the Bank of Japan said on Thursday - coming in at ...
Asia-Pacific markets set to trade mixed ahead of U.S. inflation data
Shares in the Asia-Pacific are set to trade mixed on Thursday as investors await inflation data from the U.S. due later stateside.
Tokyo Olympics clean-up hits big businesses
A few months after last year’s Tokyo Olympics, an Osaka liquidation company quietly began the job nobody wanted to admit was needed: the disposal of truckload after truckload of fluffy toys, branded ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Inc strongly backs defence spending, many firms near limit on weak yen – Reuters poll
Japanese firms overwhelmingly support increasing defence spending amid heightened sabre-rattling in Asia, according to a Reuters monthly poll on Thursday, which also showed half of companies expect ... ( read original story ...)
A rout by the US in an air battle around Taiwan led Japan to adopt desperate tactics in World War II’s final months
October 1944, US carrier planes and Japanese aircraft waged a "knock-down, drag-out fight" around the island now known as Taiwan. ( read original story ...)
2023 Osaka And Nagoya Motorcycle Shows Announce Their Official Dates
Mark your calendars for March and April. Organizers of the Osaka and Nagoya Motorcycle Shows in Japan have just announced their 2023 motorcycle show plans. If you’ll be in Japan in March or April of ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto prices are higher ahead of key inflation data, bitcoin holds at $19,000
Investors in the virtual currency space shrugged off a higher-than-expected inflation report in anticipation of Thursday's CPI read.
Japanese yen hits fresh two-decade low as BoJ’s loose monetary policy drags on
The yen dipped 0.7% to 146.9 against the greenback, moving past the 145.90 level that triggered the Bank of Japan in September to implement its first yen-buying intervention since the late '90s. The ...
Japan keeps up verbal warnings against yen sell-off to halt slide
Japan's policymakers continued to warn investors on Wednesday against selling the yen, as the dollar rose to a fresh 24-year high on the Japanese currency while hurdles to directly intervene remain ...
Does traffic noise from flying cars cause stress?
Researchers from Nagoya University and Keio University in Japan have estimated a person's stress levels caused by the sound of a flying car passing overhead. The research was published in the ... ( read original story ...)
Thank You Tokyo! Event To Recognise Those Behind Tokyo 2020’s Success
A series of sports initiations and a commemorative ceremony taking place in Tokyo on Sunday 16 October 2022 will mark the end of the one-year anniversary of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 ... ( read original story ...)
My Master Has No Tail Episode 2: Mameda and Bunko Have True Chemistry
Mameda wants more than anything for Bunko the rakugo expert to teach her the ways of comedy. In Episode 2, Mameda almost gets her wish. ( read original story ...)
Palm Beach Gardens’ $236M budget cuts property tax rate, adds 39 new city employees
Most of the new employees will staff a sixth city fire-rescue station near the Avenir development along Northlake Boulevard. ( read original story ...)
Japan scraps botched rocket launch with self-destruct command
The Epsilon-6 rocket carrying eight satellites was not in the right position to orbit the Earth and was destroyed just seven minutes after takeoff in Japan. ( read original story ...)
Hacker steals $100 million from crypto project Mango, then things get weird
On Tuesday, a hacker stole roughly $112 million from cryptocurrency exchange Mango Markets, which lives on the Solana crypto platform. They did it by purchasing a large amount of MNGO tokens on the ...