A November 4.0 earthquake in southeast Missouri activated car alarms and broke dishes, so the state is marking earthquake awareness month with safety seminars. ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Knife Attack Suspect Served New Arrest Warrant
Tokyo, Feb. 5 (Jiji Press)--Japanese police served a 17-year-old boy with a fresh arrest warrant Saturday in connection with a knife attack in front of a University of Tokyo campus that injured three ... ( read original story ...)
Editorial: Measures needed to protect medical workers after deadly standoff near Tokyo
A doctor who had dedicated himself to home medical care was recently gunned down in a hostage incident at a house in the east Japan city of Fujimino, Saitama Prefecture -- an utterly deplorable ... ( read original story ...)
Police hunt for man after Osaka supermarket robbed at knifepoint
OSAKA -- Local police are searching for a man who threatened a part-time supermarket employee at knifepoint in Osaka's Yodogawa Ward before escaping with some 740,000 yen (about $6,400 ... ( read original story ...)
Brian Armstrong laid out Coinbase’s rules for crypto content moderation
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has spelled out the crypto company’s policies for removing content from the site, a move that underlines the growing push to remove objectionable or misleading information ... ( read original story ...)
Landslide, crumbling streets, climbing death toll: The aftermath of Japan’s earthquakes
Toppled buildings and destroyed roads could be seen throughout the Kyushu island of Japan on Saturday local time as people began to assess the damage of an overnight 7.3-magnitude earthquake. ( read original story ...)
When Being the Best Isn’t Good Enough Naomi Osaka: The Athletes Aren’t OK
Read for deep dives into the unmissable ideas and topics shaping our world. Feb 04, 2022 TODAY Last May, four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka rocked the sports world by announcing she was pulling ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Nikkei rebounds 0.7%
Meanwhile, hopes for eased border restrictions in Japan also helped buoy the market mood. At closing bell, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average added 198.68 points, or 0.73%, to 27,439.99. The broader ... ( read original story ...)
LOOKS Crypto Price Predictions: How High Can OpenSea Alternative LooksRare Climb?
InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips LooksRare (CCC:LOOKS-USD) is the new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace on ... ( read original story ...)
Sushi Nikkei Is a Long Beach Japanese-Peruvian Sensation in the Making
Nikkei cuisine, which is derived from the Japanese word “nikkeijin” that translates to Japanese emigrants and their descendants broadly, has emerged from more than a century of Japanese ... ( read original story ...)
A Precedent-Setting Crypto Tax Case Is Brewing Around Whether Staked Crypto Is Income or Property
Last May, a couple sued the IRS to refund them the equivalent of $3,293 in crypto that was produced as 8,876 Tezos tokens while operating a proof-of-stake (PoS) protocol to validate Tezos blockchain ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: Gold Pegged Cryptocurrency ZPG To Be Issued This Month
While Mitsui is preparing for the launch of their gold pegged stablecoin, Japan is also looking, to begin with, its second phase of experiments with Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC ... ( read original story ...)
A New Study On COVID-19 Cases at the Tokyo Olympics Has Lessons for the Beijing Games
Tokyo officials took a calculated risk in hosting the Olympic Games last July and August. While infections of the Delta variant were causing surges around the world, including in the host city ... ( read original story ...)
Ghostwire: Tokyo preview – Tango Gameworks’ next-gen thriller has our attention
Yesterday, Bethesda and Tango Gameworks revealed a March 25th release date for Ghostwire: Tokyo while also showing off some gameplay from the upcoming title. In the lead-up to this announcement, I was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan considering introducing new COVID-19 guidelines
The news comes at a time when the highly contagious Omicron strain is gaining momentum in Japan. On Thursday, the country for the first time chalked up more than 100,000 daily infections. ( read original story ...)
Ghostwire: Tokyo Preview – There’s something strange in the Shibuya neighbourhood
ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW – The Shibuya ward of Tokyo has been cut off from the rest of the world ... bound to the Earth and unable to move on until their business is finished. One old woman refuses to ... ( read original story ...)