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Japan's financial watchdog is reportedly planning to conduct more on-site inspections of domestic cryptocurrency exchanges. According to a report from Japan's Nikkei, the country's Financial Services Agency (FSA) is looking to inspect several more ... ( read original story ...)

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Traditional paper cranes and some of the latest technology are on offer as Japan seeks to promote itself as the host of the next Olympic Games in 2020, with organisers hoping to inherit the enthusiasm and fervour of ... ( read original story ...)

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Traditional paper cranes and some of the latest technology are on offer as Japan seeks to promote itself as the host of the next Olympic Games in 2020, with organizers hoping to inherit the enthusiasm and fervor of ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s financial regulator will this week launch on-site checks of several cryptocurrency exchange operators potentially vulnerable to cyber-attacks, and may widen its inspections, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s financial regulator is planning to conduct on-site inspections this week on several cryptocurrency exchange operators that may be vulnerable to cyber-attacks, Jiji Press reported on Thursday. The Financial Services Agency (FSA ... ( read original story ...)

Thailand wants Japan to invest in the Shinkansen-like high-speed railway from Bangkok to Chiang Mai but Japan insists only on offering loans for the project. Representatives of Transport Ministry led by the minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith yesterday held ... ( read original story ...)

The idea for the parfait came from an Ikea Japan contest that roughly translates as "The Dream Dessert Illustration Contest." The Love on Sofa, which won out of 400 submissions for new Ikea desserts, was submitted by Keno Kono, and, according to Ikea ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency referred Defense News to literature produced for a 2015 symposium conducted by the agency when contacted for comment on the program. The documents seen by Defense News note that Japan sought a new ... ( read original story ...)

SEOUL/GANGNEUNG (Reuters) - A South Korean figure skating pair competing in the Winter Olympics will perform to a popular Korean folk ballad with a couple of words cut to avoid offending Japan over a reference to disputed islands, South Korean officials ... ( read original story ...)

AICHI (TR) – Aichi Prefectural Police have arrested and sent to prosecutors a 55-year-old man over the robbery of two convenience stores in Nagoya and nearby, reports CBC News (Feb. 7). According to police, Kazuaki Shimada, a company employee ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo will host the next summer games in 2020 and the organizing committee has sent a large delegation to near-neighbours South Korea to learn lessons from the Winter Games, which start on Friday. Speaking to Reuters in Pyeongchang, Tokyo 2020 spokesman ... ( read original story ...)

Servicemembers sculpted a replica of the Navy’s iconic “Lone Sailor” statue out of snow for this year’s Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido, Japan. An 11-person team from Naval Air Facility Misawa began the sculpture on Jan. 29 by chipping away at a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited a Japanese Patriot PAC-3 missile battery, Japan's last line of defense against any possible North Korean missile strike, in Tokyo on Wednesday on his way to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan's imperial palace says Princess Mako's wedding will be postponed two years because of insufficient preparations. Mako and her college classmate Kei Komuro announced their engagement last September and were to wed in November. The delay had ... ( read original story ...)

which was leading Wednesday's television news programmes. For weeks, gossip magazines have been delving into the finances of Komuro's mother, who is widowed. In late January, Japan's two biggest weeklies, each quoting an acquaintance of "a former fiance ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Japan's Ministry of Agriculture seeks to buy 100,517 tonnes of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a regular tender that will close late on Thursday. Japan, the world's sixth-biggest wheat importer ... ( read original story ...)