Executive Chef Daniel Calvert and his team at Sézanne recently received recognition as the second best restaurant in all of Asia. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Ginza robbery leader encouraged accomplices: sources
Several masked assailants broke into a luxury watch store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district on Monday. They threatened to kill the sales clerks with a knife and escaped with the stolen goods in a van ... ( read original story ...)
Exclusive: Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Is Turning a Once Pacifist Japan Into a Military Power
As he welcomes the G7 to Hiroshima, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants to turn a once pacifist Japan into a military power ( read original story ...)
Crypto Weekly: Stable coins, wobbly exchanges
STORY: From why fans say one stablecoin is the safe kind of crypto, to a wild week for Binance, these are the week’s big stories in the world of alternative money…Former FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried ...
Japanese AI solutions provider Abeja files for IPO
Tokyo-based Abeja, the Japanese startup offering a variety of AI-based solutions to help companies transform their workflows into digital, announced on Tuesday that its initial listing application ...
Tokyo Shares Open Lower Ahead Of US Inflation Data
Tokyo shares opened lower Wednesday as investors await key US inflation data and pore through corporate earnings.
Olympic skateboard champions to compete in new Tokyo int’l event
About 90 skaters from 14 countries are scheduled to take part in a new international skateboarding event, Tokyo Uprising, at Tokyo's ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka’s Meditation For Children Is Actually For All Of Us
As an immigrant living in America who is unlearning behaviors that don’t serve me, seeing Osaka prioritize mental health feels like permission to do the same. ( read original story ...)
This 80-year-old pudding maker in Tokyo goes viral for his flan-flinging flair
For more than five decades now, Shizuo Mori, now 80, has been waking up at 4 a.m. to prepare the famous flan-style puddings he serves at Hecklen, his cozy corner café in Tokyo’s Toranomon neighborhood ... ( read original story ...)
Could China Become Like Japan in the Early 1990s?
All the clues point in the direction of China being on the cusp of a lost economic decade similar to that which Japan experienced in the 1990s, writes Desmond Lachman for the newest edition of The ... ( read original story ...)
Trevor Bauer gets absolutely shelled in second start with Yokohama BayStars
Trevor Bauer is playing baseball with the Yokohama BayStars, and he got rocked in his second start, including giving up three home runs. ( read original story ...)
Japan Airlines returns to freighter business
Japan Airlines is joining a group of passenger airlines that are starting all-cargo operations. The post Japan Airlines returns to freighter business appeared first on FreightWaves. ( read original story ...)
Why Hedge Funds Use Crypto And Where The Market Is Going Next
The survey polled more than 300 institutional investors, fund managers and financial advisors in the U.S., Europe and China.
The last stronghold of the Takumi clan, a gang in the heart of Osaka’s Minami district, has been sold and “what is going to happen now”.
The headquarters office of the Takumi clan, headed by Tadashi Irie, has been sold and will soon be demolished in the heart of Osaka's Minami district, one of the city's most prosperous areas. The sale ... ( read original story ...)
Japan working towards opening of NATO liaison office in Tokyo
Japan is working towards the opening of a NATO liaison office in Tokyo, Japan's ambassador to the U.S. Koji Tomita said on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)
How the Pepe token, ‘fueled by pure memetic power,’ soared past a $1.6 billion market cap in 3 weeks—and then tumbled
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