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The Japanese government will sell 843 billion yen ($7.4 billion) of shares in Japan Post Holdings Co. in the ongoing privatization of the postal and financial-services giant six years after its ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party for the first time in 12 years may not be able to hold onto its outright parliamentary majority after this Sunday’s general ... ( read original story ...)

Genta Nakagawa (Co-CEO of Wwwaap)Image credits Quan, Wwwaap See the original story in Japanese. Tokyo-based Quan, the Japanese ... ( read original story ...)

Kakao Pay, the fintech arm of mobile giant Kakao Corp., plans to accelerate its global expansion drive after its market debut slated for Nov. 3, the company’s CEO said on Monday. “In five years, ... ( read original story ...)

Hero Cycles, the largest integrated bicycle manufacturer in the world, has laid out aggressive business expansion plans for the next two years, including stake sales in group companies, acquisitions ... ( read original story ...)

Cryptocurrency might not replace fiat currencies — but, correctly supervised, it could make them a lot more useful. .Cryptocurrency has so far failed to sweep away government-issued ... ( read original story ...)

Elon Musk helped Shiba Inu vault up the ranks of the largest cryptocurrencies by market value by tweeting a photo of his puppy. Now the meme token is down after he said he doesn’t own any. ( read original story ...)

"For the foreseeable future, I'm fine, because I did buy crypto at the right time," Frances Haugen told The New York Times. ( read original story ...)

This goal might be attainable — with help from the governments that crypto was meant to sideline. ( read original story ...)

Shiba Inu soared to record highs over the weekend to become the 11th-biggest cryptocurrency by market value.Most Read from BloombergCities' Answer to Sprawl? Go Wild.Why Americans and Britons Are ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese bedding manufacturer has set up a climate-controlled space to collect hard data on how its blankets and other products perform under a variety of weather conditions. As the tester sleeps in ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Monday that promoting sustainable finance will be at the core of the city's updated strategy to become a global financial center under the Tokyo Global Financial Center ... ( read original story ...)

Any push by new minister Takayuki Kobayashi to forge closer ties with Taiwan as part of attempts to better safeguard Japan's economic security interests could prompt retaliation by Beijing. ( read original story ...)

Vestas has currently manufactured all the blades, nacelles and most of the tower sections for Akita Offshore Wind Corporation's Akita Noshiro Offshore Wind Farm Project. The project will be Japan's ... ( read original story ...)

The CEO of global investment firm Skybridge Capital is predicting that the crypto markets will see more institutional interest in the next 12 to 18 months. ( read original story ...)

Japanese stocks dropped on Monday on disappointing earnings, with semiconductor-related shares among the hardest hit following a decline in U.S. tech peers on poor earnings and concerns about the ... ( read original story ...)