Japan will declare a state of emergency in three more prefectures; Greece launches tourism season; UK shadow health secretary calls for ‘surge vaccinations’ as India variant cases double ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumps more than 2%; Alibaba shares in Hong Kong plunge 4%
Shares in Japan led gains among the region’s major markets. The Nikkei 225 jumped 2.33% in afternoon trade. That followed a more than 2% plunge seen on Thursday. The Topix index gained 2.08%. South ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s most expensive bank hides in a 7-Eleven
ValueAct’s tilt at Seven & i involves deciding what to do with its 40% stake in the only Japanese lender trading over book value. Seven Bank mostly runs ATMs, a model threatened by digitisation. Yet ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Finance Minister: Not considering compiling extra budget now to respond to coronavirus
Japan's government is not considering crafting a supplementary budget to respond to the coronavirus pandemic immediately given there's still money left to tap in the emergency budget reserve, Finance ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Aso: To spend JPY512 B in emergency budget reserve to secure covid vaccines
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Friday, the Cabinet has decided to spend JPY512 billion in emergency budget reserve to secure coronavirus vaccines. However, he added that the Ministry is ... ( read original story ...)
Amazon seeks renewable power for Japan data centres – Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is in talks with Japanese power utilities and trading houses to build a renewable power plant in Japan to procure clean energy for its local data centres, the Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)
Chinatown in Yokohama has a feng shui pay toilet so we dashed over to use it right away
Feng shui has been popular in contemporary culture on a smaller scale, especially in terms of vacation spots or to make the bedroom a more relaxing space. However, when we heard that there was a pay ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo’s Nikkei share average opens up 1.00 pct
Japan's benchmark Nikkei average opened up 1.00 percent at 27,723.70 on Friday, while the broader Topix gained 1.10 percent at 1,869.35. T Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is ... ( read original story ...)
Japan buys 122,180 tonnes food wheat via tender
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought 122,180 tonnes of food-quality wheat from the United States, Canada, and Australia in a regular tender. Japan, the world's sixth-biggest wheat importer, keeps a ... ( read original story ...)
Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off Japan’s Fukushima prefecture
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake was registered on Friday off the northeastern Japanese prefecture of Fukushima, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. ( read original story ...)
6.0-magnitude quake strikes off Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, no tsunami warning issued
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck off Japan's Fukushima Prefecture on Friday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). The temblor occurred at around 8:58 a.m. local time, with ... ( read original story ...)
M6.0 earthquake hits off the coast of Fukushima
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 struck off the coast of Japan's Fukushima Prefecture at 8:58 a.m. local time on Friday, according to Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake hit at a depth of 40 ... ( read original story ...)
Crypto Mogul Vitalik Buterin’s $1B Donation of ‘Petcoins’ to Charity Backfires
Vitalik Buterin contributed massive sums of dog-related joke coins, which he’d received as part of a marketing stunt, to a fund for Covid relief in India and other charities. ( read original story ...)
Center court with Naomi Osaka’s trainer: The importance of massaging muscles
Yutaka Nakamura, 48, is a personal trainer to 23-year-old tennis star Naomi Osaka. In the following article, Nakamura discusses the importance of mass･･･ ... ( read original story ...)
In surprise move, Japan to add 3 more prefectures to state of emergency
Japan has decided to add three more prefectures hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic to a state of emergency, Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said on Friday, in a surprise move reflecting ' growing ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumps more than 1% as Asia-Pacific markets rise following overnight Dow bounce
The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 400 points overnight as stocks stateside rebounded from sharp losses in the previous session. ( read original story ...)