Japan has taken a relatively light-touch approach to regulating ... Ceres, which invests in cryptocurrency companies, finished the morning up 5%. Nikkei Inc. group company QUICK holds an equity stake in bitFlyer. ( read original story ...)
Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange faces action by watchdog
Japan has taken a relatively light-touch approach to regulating cryptocurrency activity compared with China, which has clamped down after an early surge in trading. Nikkei Inc. group company QUICK holds an equity stake in bitFlyer. ( read original story ...)
Japanese don’t need digital currency as they love cash, BOJ says
Cash is still king in Japan, and that means that the central bank doesn’t see a need to mint a digital currency for now, according to the head of the FinTech Center at the Bank of Japan. “We aren’t at the stage of considering issuing a digital ... ( read original story ...)
Yokohama Tire 24 Hours of Lemons Deal
In short, anything goes.(Photo: Yokohama) Yokohama Tire’s latest racing partnership has juice. The tire maker is now the official tire of the 24 Hours of Lemons, the madcap race series featuring cars that cost a whopping $500 or less (not including tires ... ( read original story ...)
Rakuten moves into property insurance with latest acquisition
TOKYO -- Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten will expand further into insurance by acquiring a Nomura-owned property insurer and using it as an outlet for new data-driven policies. Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani's group plans to spend 40 billion yen to 50 ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka Women’s Marathon
Maeda, 21, won last year’s Hokkaido Marathon in 2:28:48. She made her debut in Osaka last year, finishing 12 th with 2:32:19. In December she improved her half marathon time by nearly two and a half minutes to 1:10:22; her goal for Sunday is to crack 2:26. ( read original story ...)
China and Japan still groping their way to rapprochement
BEIJING -- Sunday's meeting here between the Japanese and Chinese foreign ministers showed that while both sides talk about wanting better relations, each seems to be waiting for the other to make the first move, particularly on sensitive territorial matters. ( read original story ...)
Hacked Tokyo Digital currency Exchange to Repay Owners $425m
Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc said on Sunday ... Two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) sent a notice to the country’s roughly 30 firms that operate virtual currency exchanges ... ( read original story ...)
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Cryptocurrency HACKING VICTIMS to be REIMBURSED £38million by Coincheck exchange
Mr Otsuka old a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange yesterday ... But it is something we are investigating at the moment." Japan’s financial watchdog is considering whether to take administrative punishment against Coincheck for the hack ... ( read original story ...)
Dozens injured, transport disrupted as slow blankets Tokyo
More than 330 domestic flights departing from and arriving to airports in the Tokyo region were cancelled due to the bad weather, while some regional trains were also suspended, local news reports said. Japan's northern regions frequently see heavy snow ... ( read original story ...)
Hacked Tokyo Cryptocurrency Exchange to Repay Owners $425 Million
TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck ... Coincheck's application, submitted in September, is still pending. Coincheck told a late-Friday news conference that its NEM coins were stored in a "hot wallet" instead of the more secure ... ( read original story ...)
Japan foreign minister hopes for improved ties with China
Japan is making efforts to further a gradual thaw in relations dogged by history and a territorial dispute. Concerns about North Korea's nuclear weapons program also featured prominently in the Sunday discussions. Japan has pushed for stricter measures ... ( read original story ...)
Earthquake rocks Japan – Ring of Fire on alert
The earthquake registered 5.1 magnitude at struck at a depth of 37 miles off the east coast of Honshu. The Japan earthquake struck 46 miles from the town of Miyako, which is home to more than 50,000 people. Morioka-shi, home to nearly 300,000 people, is 73 ... ( read original story ...)
Japan pushes China, South Korea for 3-way summit
BEIJING -- The Japanese government is making its final push to convince China and South Korea to come to the table for a trilateral summit in Japan soon. Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono arrived in Beijing on Saturday, and will meet with Foreign ... ( read original story ...)
China’s military is turning its aggressive South China Sea tactics on Japan
Additionally, China had never sent a submarine into the contested waters before. Japanese government data that was translated for Business Insider by Nori Katagiri, an assistant professor of political science at Saint Louis University and the inaugural ... ( read original story ...)