Japan's Financial Services Agency has told major insurance ... Bigmotor to report whether their dealings with the used-car dealer adhered to the Insurance Business Act. Sources say the agency thought ... ( read original story ...)
I moved to an abandoned house in Japan’s countryside. I learned that homeownership in Japan is not the same ticket towards long-term stability as it is in the US.
How Japanese culture views homeownership changed my perspective ... but it was also a way of being a good neighbor and wanting to use the skills that I have to maintain the property. If you are aware ... ( read original story ...)
Japan insurers suspected of price-fixing for corporate contracts
Japan's major property insurers are suspected of having colluded over insurance premiums for corporate customers such as oil refiners ... ( read original story ...)
Binance Had $90 Billion of Monthly Crypto Trades in China, Where Crypto Is Banned, Report Says
U sers for the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, engaged in $90 billion worth of trades in China in one 30-day period, despite the fact that the country banned crypto in 2021. The revelation makes China Binance’s largest market, responsible for 20% of its global trade volume.
Crypto Rules Delay Puts Billions in Tax Revenue at Risk
Democratic senators are pressing the Biden administration to speed up the release of regulations tied to a 2021 law.
Japan plans to combat scams by taking elderly people’s bank cards away: ‘people are going to panic’
Some worry that the proposal would make older people’s lives more difficult, but there’s also a growing recognition of the need to stop scammers.
3 ETF Picks to Follow Warren Buffett’s Big Bets on Japan
This has led to the rise of Japan ETF picks. Notably ... owns and operates individual companies across finance, energy, automobiles, food, and more. Astute investors will notice this mirrors Berkshire ...
Nagoya University Researchers Use Supercomputer To Simulate Winds That Cause Clear Air Turbulence
A research group from Nagoya University has accurately simulated air turbulence occurring on clear days around Tokyo using Japan’s fastest supercomputer. They then compared their findings with flight ... ( read original story ...)
Typhoon Khanun kills one man, knocks out power to one-third of Japan’s Okinawa homes
High winds hit power lines in Japan's popular tourist destination Okinawa, knocking out electricity to more than 200,000 households on Wednesday morning, as powerful and slow-moving Typhoon Khanun neared the country's southwestern islands. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nomura Suffers Biggest Share-Price Fall in 2 Years
Nomura Holdings, Japan’s largest brokerage by revenue, suffered its biggest one-day stock-price fall in more than two years Wednesday after its earnings showed weakness outside Japan. Nomura shares closed 8. ( read original story ...)
Japanese shares post biggest one-day drop this year; US rating cut weighs
Japan's benchmark Nikkei average closed down 2.30% at 32,707.69 in its sharpest one-day drop since Dec. 20, while the broader Topix slipped 1.54% to 2,301.26. "Japan's chip-related stocks tracked ...
Japan Insurers Sink on Concerns Over Suspected Price Fixing
A price-fixing scandal at Japan’s biggest casualty insurers is escalating following a media report that the suspected collusion is likely to be wider than initially believed. Most Read from ...
‘Long way to go’: Bank of Japan douses hopes that policy tweak marks the end of easy policy
Deputy Governor Shinichi Ichida said there is "still a long way to go" before BOJ would even consider raising short-term interest rates to 0%. ( read original story ...)
Warner Bros. apologizes for ‘Barbenheimer’ tweets that sparked criticism in Japan
The Warner Bros. Film Group has apologized after the Twitter account for its “Barbie” film sparked backlash over its embrace of memes that appeared to depict the character immersed in atomic blast imagery from Universal’s film “Oppenheimer. ( read original story ...)
Japan sees a region on fire
After skimming Japan’s new defense white paper, one gets the sense that Asia is on fire. The 30-page strategy is screaming with warnings about the rules-based order coming under threat from resurgent authoritarian states (i. ( read original story ...)
Cryptos show resilience; BNB gains on Binance Japan launch
Bitcoin, Ether and most other top ten tokens gained Wednesday morning in Asia, with BNB leading winners after Binance Japan launch.