The Oscars' best picture winner "Oppenheimer" premiered in Japan amid concern over how victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings would react. ( read original story ...)
Race Across The World 2024 contestants reveal their winning strategies and share the home comforts they’ll miss the most
Race Across the World, the BBC’s epic, hugely successful and much-loved BAFTA-award winning series returns to BBC One and BBC iPlayer for its hotly anticipated new season from Wednesday 10 April. ( read original story ...)
Japan Has Said Goodbye to Its Life-Sized Gundam
There was music, there was sadness, there was sparkling lesbians in the sky—a fitting farewell to the Yokohama Gundam ... ( read original story ...)
Mobile Suit Gundam Takes Over Japan’s Skies With Epic Drone Show
Gundam franchise began in the late 1970s, the mech story began by focusing on the Earth Federation's war against the Principality of Zeon. Fighting on the side of Earth, the young mech pilot Amuro was ... ( read original story ...)
Russian Strategic Bombers Spotted Patrolling Sea Of Japan
Two Tu-95MS aircraft conducted a 10-hour flight over the Sea of Japan only days after the U.S. announced military exercises aimed at deterring North Korea. ( read original story ...)
Shōgun’s Masterful Reimagining of 17th-Century Japan Is a Feat of Set Building
The FX miniseries refashions Vancouver into 1600s Osaka to capture the grit and grandeur of James Clavell’s 1975 novel ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Launches Deposit-Backed ‘Tochika’ Stablecoin
In a first for Japan, Hokkoku Bank launches 'Tochika' - a pioneering stablecoin backed by bank deposits, paving the way for secure crypto adoption.
Institutional money is flowing back into crypto. Here’s how one new hedge fund is approaching the markets
Institutional capital will always lead hobbyist traders, and the explosion in prices has jumpstarted that cycle. As Bloomberg reported in December 2023, before the ETFs had even launched, crypto ...
Boeing’s turbulent descent: The company’s scandals & mishaps explained
Ongoing safety concerns have caused Boeing to face major federal investigations, executive shakeups, and eroding investor confidence as customers scramble to rebook their flights on non-Boeing ...
Japan’s economy must shift away from ‘crisis-mode’ to demand-driven growth, government panel says
A Japanese government panel recommended implementing fiscal policies that respond to rising prices and strengthening growth instead of continuing a "crisis-mode" approach.
Digital Core REIT acquires another 10 percent share of Osaka data center in Japan
Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan. The interest has been acquired via Digital Core REIT's subsidiary, Digital CR Singapore 4 Pte. Ltd., for ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka shares bad feelings for the defeat at the Miami Open
In a recent post on her X account, the Japanese tennis player Naomi Osaka expressed her disappointment at the elimination from the Miami Open (where she however showed a good tennis level), commenting ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Metro forms a capital and business alliance with BtoB e-ticket platform Linktivity to develop packaged ‘Tokyo City Pass’
Toyo Metro and Linktivity, a BtoB e-ticket platform, formed a capital and business alliance with a plan to develop ‘Tokyo City Pass (provisional name),’ which is packaged with tourist attraction ... ( read original story ...)
Japan says it will restart support to UNRWA
Japan said Tuesday that it will continue funding a United Nations organization that helps Palestinian refugees after doubts have been cast on allegations that some of its employees were involved in ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s notoriously private royal family joins Instagram to appeal to a younger audience
Japan's imperial family made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts on Monday, hoping to shake off their reclusive image and reach out to younger people on social media. ( read original story ...)
Shōgun ’s Masterful Reimagining of 17th-Century Japan Is a Feat of Set Building
To make a convincing Japan out of Vancouver, the team found an old cedar mill ... that involve going into the water in boats,” she says. The owners of the mill property dismantled “masses” of ... ( read original story ...)