A stage hypnotist has been sentenced to eight months in prison for stealing a woman’s identity and illegally downloading and selling nudes of two other women he hacked on social media.
Coinbase Revealed To Be Backing BlackRock’s ‘$5 Trillion By 2030’ Crypto Game-Changer After Bitcoin, Ethereum And XRP Price Pump
BlackRock has revealed the next stage in its plan for a "technological revolution in the financial markets" that could cause a bitcoin, ethereum, XRP and crypto price ...
The global IPO market just hit its inflection point
The IPO market has had itself a hell of a week, and not just in the U.S. By the numbers: Global offerings raised more than $5.6 billion since Monday, with most issuers seeing strong gains in early ...
Nikkei Stock Briefly Hits Record High After Inflation Surges in Japan
Japan’s Nikkei 225 index reached a new all-time high, briefly surpassing 41,000 on Friday, driven by the country’s rising inflation rate in February. Meanwhile, other markets in the Asia-Pacific ...
Soccer Match Between Japan and North Korea Complicated by Off-Field Rivalry and Issues
Here’s what to know about Japan and North Korea’s fierce rivalry—on and off the field—as their men’s teams compete to play in the 2026 World Cup. ( read original story ...)
Exclusive-Japan’s Seibu considers sale of Tokyo office building for $2 billion, sources say
Required yields on prime commercial properties in Tokyo central business districts are as low as 3%, falling short of what is generally expected as cost of capital for listed companies. Seibu sold ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s era of stagnant salaries, steady prices and mortgages that never go up is over
Japan on March 19 declared the end of the world’s last negative interest-rate policy. Read more at straitstimes.com. ( read original story ...)
Stock market today: World shares are mixed after another Wall Street record day
In other trading early Friday, U.S. benchmark crude oil gained 4 cents to $81.11 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, the international standard, was ...
Trial Holdings Jumps 29% After Japan’s Largest IPO This Year
Discount-store chain operator Trial Holdings Inc. rose 29% in its first day of trade in Tokyo after an initial public offering that raised ¥38.85 billion ($258 million), Japan’s largest this year.
The Week in Numbers: hiking in Japan
From a landmark rate hike in Japan, to a hotly anticipated IPO for Reddit, we round up the big stories in business and finance over the week to March 22. Ilan Rubens reports. Manhattan D.A. tells ...
Japan Finance Minister says it’s difficult to comment on chance of FX intervention
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday that it's difficult to comment on the possibility of currency intervention, when asked about the chance of such action by authorities to stem ...
UK’s rarest cars: 1979 Colt Sapporo GSR, one of only five left
Forty-five years ago, the Sapporo coupé appealed to motorists who were less concerned with speed than comfort, reliability and owning a car where even the digital clock epitomised good taste. Tony ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s union group Rengo announces biggest wage hikes on record
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese firms have agreed to raise pay by 5.25% this year, the biggest rise under comparable data since 2013, the country's largest union group Rengo confirmed ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Gas to increase use of e-methane, hydrogen and wind power
Tokyo Gas , Japan's biggest city gas supplier, said on Friday it aims to achieve 50% carbon neutrality by 2040 by using new fuels such as e-methane and hydrogen as well as renewable energy including ... ( read original story ...)
Japan chooses JRE, Ibedrola, Tohoku Electric for offshore wind farm
The Japanese government has chosen a consortium comprising Japan Renewable Energy, Iberdrola Renewables and Tohoku Electric Power as the wind power operator for an offshore block tendered in a second ... ( read original story ...)
Asian Stocks Decline with China Leading; Nikkei Loses Momentum
Asian markets experienced a widespread decline on Friday, led by Chinese stocks, as renewed worries about a decelerating economy weighed on investor sentiment. Meanwhile, Japan’s Nikkei 225 initially ...