director of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism; John De Fries, president of the Hawaii Tourism Authority; George Kam, chair of the Hawaii Tourism Authority; and House Speaker ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese Philosophies Can Enhance HVAC Business Practices
When I was two years old, our family moved to Japan. Certain Japanese words have stayed with me like green tea infused into boiling water. ( read original story ...)
US blacklists mixer used to launder proceeds from Axie Infinity crypto hack
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed sanctions on a virtual currency mixer it said North Korea used to help launder stolen virtual currency as part of the country's malicious cyber ... ( read original story ...)
Sweden? Japan? UK? Debates over who had a ‘good’ Covid won’t end
The WHO has spoken but even its huge new report will not settle arguments about pandemic strategies ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s nuke water dumping to endanger marine products, ocean, says green activist
Japan's plan to dump radioactive waste water from its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean will endanger marine products and contaminate the ocean further, a South ... ( read original story ...)
Retro Japan: 17C irrigation system near Tokyo, source of water disputes, now haven of peace
There is a former irrigation canal system near Tokyo completed in the early Edo period (1603-1867) to get water to local farmland. It was ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto, like railways, is among the world’s top innovations of the millennium
In a similar manner, the common observer is stuck between a Bitcoin (BTC) evangelist preaching the dollar’s Doomsday and a big bank’s crypto skeptic. In fact, there is no clear trend of what ... ( read original story ...)
Japan To Ease Travel Restrictions By Allowing Tourist Groups Into The Country
Japan is set to experiment with a new travel norm post COVID-19 pandemic. The country is going to allow small foreign tourist groups to enter from May 2022. According to a report by Fuji News Network ... ( read original story ...)
Web Summit shifts gaze to Brazil for first event outside of Europe after Tokyo plans fall through
The Web Summit has shelved plans for its Japanese event as it now sets its sights on Brazil. The tech conference business this week announced its first event under the Web Summit banner outside Europe ... ( read original story ...)
US Chipmaker Nvidia Fined $5.5 Million Over Crypto Mining, Bitcoin Rises
US-based chipmaker Nvidia will reportedly pay $5.5 million to settle charges that it unlawfully obscured details of how many of its graphics cards were sold to cryptocurrency miners. The US Securities ... ( read original story ...)
Ill health plaguing children, grandchildren of 1968 oil poisoning victims in Japan: survey
A massive food poisoning incident caused by tainted rice bran oil more than half a century ago in Japan may still be affecting the health o ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Hour: Road Trip on Yamagata Tetsudo Flower-Nagai Line – Part 1
Fukui's biggest temple, a park that is illuminated in winter, a centre where visitors can experience zero gravity and space travel, and a footbath with colour-changing stones are featured this week. ( read original story ...)
N.Korea fires likely submarine-launched ballistic missile, S.Korea, Japan say
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Saturday, South Korea and Japan said, three days before the inauguration of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has vowed to take a hard line ... ( read original story ...)
Lori Dengler | Seismographs aren’t the only instruments to measure earthquakes
The most exciting application of GNSS is in estimating the size of earthquakes as the ground is still rupturing,” Lori Dengler writes in this week’s Not My Fault columbn. ( read original story ...)
Caesars spinoff VICI closes on big Vegas Strip property deal
Still, it easily ranks among the largest real estate sales the Strip has ever seen and significantly expands VICI’s holdings in the famed casino corridor, making the New York company one of the ... ( read original story ...)
Should You Put Your Tax Refund Into Crypto?
Some Americans will receive over $3,000 in tax refunds this year. Find out if it's a good idea to put that money into crypto or whether there might be other ways to spend it. ( read original story ...)