JAKARTA -- Japanese automakers, long competitive in Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest market, are facing pressure to reassess production capacity as they grapple with a shrinking market and the rise ...
Japan’s insurers beef up offerings to minimize food loss
TOKYO -- Japanese nonlife insurers are expanding their products and services to help reduce food loss as concerns grow regarding food waste in the country.
Japan grapples with next move in Trump tariff negotiations
TOKYO -- Japanese negotiators have struggled to make headway on addressing tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, with industry leaders seeing limits to the government's diplomatic efforts.
Japan’s biggest beef bowl chain Sukiya to shut 2,000 stores after rat, bug incidents
Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya will temporarily shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 branches after a rat was found in a miso soup and a bug in another meal, the company said Saturday.
CoreWeave co-founder explains how a closet of crypto-mining GPUs led to a $1.5B IPO
CoreWeave co-founder Brian Venturo knows that three hedge fund guys, turned crypto miners, now running AI training infrastructure has been a wild ride.
Pentagon head Hegseth joins war memorial service in 1st Japan visit
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday attended a war memorial service on Iwoto Island in the Pacific as he kicked off his first official visit to Japan, showcasing an ...
Crypto’s Trumpian Embrace Is Leaving Bitcoin’s Big Rival Behind
But after capturing the imaginations of both corporate America and Wall Street, Buterin’s project is now struggling to deliver on its early promise as it enters its second decade, having fallen out of ...
Bitcoin And Crypto Brace For A Huge $36 Trillion April Fed Price Flip
There was a seminal change in the [Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s] tone at the last Fed board meeting,” Hayes, the cofounder of crypto deivatives pioneer BitMex who ...
The Crypto Market In 2025: Are Crypto Demand Trends Rising Or Weakening?
Are crypto demand trends in 2025 rising or falling? Explore market trends, adoption rates, and expert predictions to understand the future of cryptocurrency demand.
‘Japan Is Ready For Bitcoin’: Metaplanet Leads The Way, Now Holds 3,350 $BTC
Japanese firm Metaplanet is Asia's largest known corporate holder of Bitcoin The company's Sunday shareholders meeting was fully packed amid increasing interest in ...
The Story of Crypto’s Rise: Tangled, Confusing and Frustrating
In “The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto,” Benjamin Wallace is hot on the trail of the person — or people — behind a financial revolution.
Which Crypto Can Do 1000x in 2025? Here’s One That Stands Out
The crypto market is about timing, fundamentals, and being early on real infrastructure that the entire Web3 space will eventually rely on.
Corporate governance: a new chapter for Japan and South Korea
These prospering East Asian nations hold huge potential for international investors. Could a series of recent changes be the catalyst for increasing their exposure even more?
Ditching net zero is a dangerous gamble for Japan’s megabanks
Eri Watanabe is a senior Japan energy finance campaigner at Market Forces, a clean energy finance advocacy group working across Asia and Australia.
Japan gov’t urges earlier release of securities reports for investors
Japan's financial watchdog on Friday called on all listed companies to disclose their annual securities reports before their general ...
Trump Goes on Friday Pardon Spree for Crypto, Media Heads
President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the criminal fraud sentence of Carlos Watson, a co-founder of Ozy Media, as well as the probation sentence imposed on the now-defunct company, and pardoned ...