Bitcoin's new record-topping streak is unlocking the crazies of the crypto world. The value of "meme coins"—projects whose value is based largely on the popularity of internet memes—is rocketing once ...
Crypto’s $800 Billion Rally Widens Beyond Record-Setting Bitcoin
Smaller cryptocurrencies are starting to pull ahead of record-setting Bitcoin as traders bet the tokens are next in line to test all-time peaks.An index tracking the bottom half of the largest 100 ...
Why Crypto Just Won’t Die
Then the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates, and the crypto market abruptly tanked. Sam Bankman-Fried, whose face used to gaze out from full-page New Yorker ads, now awaits sentencing for ...
Kewell’s Yokohama Take Slender Lead In Asian Champions League Quarter-final
Harry Kewell's Yokohama F-Marinos gained a slender advantage over Chinese side Shandong Taishan in their Asian Champions League quarter-final with a 2-1 first-leg win on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)
Kuwaiti Delegation Unveils Pavilion Design At Expo Osaka 2025
The architectural design and exhibition of the Kuwaiti Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo hosted by the Japanese city of Osak ... ( read original story ...)
Woman and her parents indicted over decapitating of man in Sapporo
They are accused of killing and decapitating the 62-year-old office worker at a hotel in Sapporo's downtown Susukino district in July last year. ( read original story ...)
Ex-operator of luxury watch rental service wanted by Tokyo police for suspected fraud
The former president of a company who operated a luxury wristwatch rental service is wanted by Tokyo police on suspicion of embezzlem ... ( read original story ...)
Self-Driving Robots Begin Deliveries In Tokyo
Caution: robot! chirps the green self-driving delivery vehicle as it trundles down the street to a restaurant in Tokyo to ... ( read original story ...)
Japan praises Korean-led solution to forced labor issue, but mum on follow-up
The Japanese government said Wednesday it has a positive view of the Korean-led solution to the Japanese forced labor compensation issue announced a year ago Wednesday, noting it has contributed to ... ( read original story ...)
Currency market calm before Powell speech, bitcoin resumes rally
The U.S. dollar was a touch softer on Wednesday, as traders kept their powder dry ahead of the first leg of congressional testimony from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the European Central ...
Japan’s Biggest Bank Sets Trading Strategy for BOJ Pivot This Month
One question is obsessing Tokyo’s financial markets — when will the Bank of Japan exit negative interest rates? The country’s biggest bank expects the move to come in two weeks and is positioning ...
Japan’s Capital Spending Jumps as Firms Surprisingly Bullish
Japanese businesses ramped up investment in the final quarter of 2023, an indication that firms were more bullish than indicated in overall growth figures for the period released last month.
More soil liquefaction caused by Japan Noto quake than major 1995 disaster: research
The earthquake that struck central Japan's Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day caused liquefaction in more places than the 1995 Great Hanshin Ea･･･ ... ( read original story ...)
Ex-police inspector ordered to pay ¥800,000 fine for detainee’s death in Okazaki
The Nagoya Summary Court has ordered a 46-year-old ex-Aichi prefectural police inspector to pay a fine of 800,000 yen following the death of a man in custody at Okazaki police station in December 2022 ... ( read original story ...)
Challenging Hydrodynamic Laws: Unraveling the Mysteries of Superfluid Turbulence
A theoretical framework aimed at measuring Reynolds similitude in superfluids could potentially prove the presence of quantum viscosity. Every liquid or gas, ranging from the air enveloping our planet ... ( read original story ...)
CBDC Not Widely Recognised in Japan Despite Ongoing Trials, R&D Efforts: Details
As per Bank of Japan governor – money has a nature of undergoing changes which is what is happening now with the onset of digital currencies like CBDCs.