The family of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, now imprisoned in Japan following a fatal car crash, is calling for his release, with the aid of bipartisan lawmakers in the U.S. ( read original story ...)
Japan executes prisoner who killed 7 in Tokyo street rampage
Japan has executed a man who killed seven people in a vehicle crash and stabbing rampage in a Tokyo shopping district in 2008 ... ( read original story ...)
In Japan, ‘accident properties’ that have been the scene of a death carry a heavy stigma. Meet the people selling and renting these homes, often at a discount.
"I was weighing the pros and cons of the apartment when I thought, 'People have to die somewhere? What's the difference?'" a former tenant told Insider. ( read original story ...)
WATCH: Lionel Messi, Neymar run riot as PSG thrash Gamba Osaka 6-2 in friendly
PSG opened the scoring in the 28th minute when Argentina superstar Lionel Messi burst into the box and had a shot saved, before Pablo Sarabia steered the rebound home for his second goal in as many ... ( read original story ...)
Assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo’s Akihabara executed: source
Japan executed a man on Tuesday over a 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district in which seven people were killed and 10 others inj ... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes assailant in fatal 2008 rampage in Tokyo
A man convicted over a 2008 rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district in which seven people were killed was executed Tuesday, a source familiar with the case said. Tomohiro Kato, 39, was sentenced to ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo prosecutors search home of ex-Olympic board member -Kyodo
Tokyo prosecutors have searched the home of ex-Tokyo 2020 Olympic board member Haruyuki Takahashi in connection to suspected inappropriate payments made to him by clothes retailer Aoki Holdings Inc, ... ( read original story ...)
Changes in Tokyo’s power usage after nuclear power plant closures
Since 2003, three of the nuclear power plants that supplied Tokyo, Japan with its electricity shut down. Researchers suspected that this would have implications for the city’s consumption-based CO2 ... ( read original story ...)
Tomohiro Kato: Japan executes Akihabara mass murderer, say reports
Tomohiro Kato committed one of the most shocking mass murders in the country's recent history. He was 25 when he drove a truck into a lunch-time crowd of pedestrians at Akihabara shopping district, ... ( read original story ...)
Japan executes Akihabara mass murderer
Japan has executed a 39-year-old man who killed seven people in Tokyo in 2008 during a stabbing rampage, local media outlets have reported. Tomohiro Kato committed one of the most shocking mass ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s corporate service prices hit two-decade high on soaring freight cost
An index measuring prices Japanese firms charge each other for services hit a more than two-decade high in June, data showed on Tuesday, a sign the economic impact of rising global fuel and commodity ... ( read original story ...)
Sam Bankman-Fried Tries To Rescue Crypto…Again
Sam Bankman-Fried continues to use his seemingly bottomless money pit to rescue. FTX and Alameda Research created a plan last week to help the customers of the now fallen crypto company, Voyager ...
Crypto valuations may sink until September as VCs play a waiting game
Tons of capital has been raised across the crypto industry in recent months, but there has been a noticeable pause in deployment. That might change in the coming months.
Crypto CEO pleads guilty in $21 million fraud scheme
The CEO of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services Inc. (TBIS) has pleaded guilty to involvement in a $21 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). In a ...
Is Crypto Recovering – Predictions of the Best Crypto Traders
One of the best crypto Twitter traders @Pentosh1 tweeted a joke about some market commentators placing too much importance on the 200 week moving average. That may have been a subtweet of ...
A CFTC commissioner says getting crypto right is critical to the US
The crypto crash is “a failure of risk management,” says CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham. But, she says, the U.S. still has a chance to do regulation the right way.