It's uncertain times right now for the video game industry as a whole. Three of Japan’s biggest video game companies are making drastic changes to the way they do business. Those three companies are ... ( read original story ...)
Disgraced Crypto Moguls Do Kwon and Su Zhu Emerge After FTX Saga
The drama unfolding in the crypto industry has lured two downtrodden scions back into the limelight. Do Kwon, the founder of collapsed stablecoin project Terra, and Su Zhu, the co-founder of bankrupt ...
Crypto Stocks In For Another Tough Day Amid FTX Crisis — Coinbase Plunges 5% Premarket
Fried’s FTX cryptocurrency exchange and its subsequent bailout by Binance brought to the fore the vulnerability of digital currencies and related instit ...
Congress unswept, crypto a mess
Running market assumptions of a Republican clean sweep of U.S. Congress in Tuesday's midterm elections appear wide of the mark so far from early results, leaving investors to ponder the implication ...
Roundup: Japan’s Nikkei ends lower ahead of U.S. inflation data, election results
Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index ended lower Wednesday, as investors opted for profits ahead of the release of U.S. inflation data seen as a barometer for the future course of the U.S. Federal ...
Earthquake hits Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture, no tsunami warning
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 hit Japan's Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. ( read original story ...)
Japan creates new alert for risk of subsequent earthquakes
The central government decided on Nov. 8 that in the event of a huge earthquake along the Japan Trench or the Chishima Trench, it will issue an alert warning of the potential for follow-up earthquakes ... ( read original story ...)
5.0-magnitude earthquake jolts Japan
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.0 struck Japan''s eastern prefecture of Ibaraki on Wednesday, with no tsunami warnings issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. ( read original story ...)
5.0-magnitude quake jolts Japan’s Ibaraki prefecture: JMA
According to the JMA, the quake occurred at 5:40 p.m. local time at a depth of about 50 km in southern Ibaraki prefecture, measuring an upper 5 on Japan's seismic intensity scale which peaks at 7. The ... ( read original story ...)
Inflation Brings End to Beloved 114-Year-Old Japanese Candy
A beloved Japanese candy eaten by generations, so iconic it even appeared in a hit anime film, has come to the end of the line, a victim of surging raw material and energy prices. Tokyo-based ... ( read original story ...)
Yakuza boss, 4 others arrested for alleged threat using severed pig heads in Osaka Pref.
A senior executive of a designated crime syndicate based here and four other men were taken into custody on Nov. 8 for allegedly making bizar ... ( read original story ...)
M5.0 quake hits North of Tokyo
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has rocked Ibaraki Prefecture, north of Tokyo. It hit at around 5:40 pm on Wednesday. ( read original story ...)
Former Tokyo Games executive indicted for 4th time in bribery case
Tokyo prosecutors have brought a fourth indictment against a former executive of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics organizing committee for accepting bribes. ( read original story ...)
Former Tokyo Olympic executive indicted for fourth time in bribery case
The latest indictment adds to previous accusations against Haruyuki Takahashi of accepting bribes in relation to sponsorship and marketing related to the Games. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei ends lower ahead of U.S. inflation data, election results
TOKYO, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index ended lower Wednesday, as investors opted for profits ahead of the release of U.S. inflation data seen as a barometer for the future ...
CORRECTED-Japan’s Nikkei retreats from two-month high as Nintendo tumbles after earnings
Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Wednesday from a near two-month high hit in the last session, led by heavyweight Nintendo after it posted poor earnings, while investors also awaited U.S. consumer ...