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Japan has squandered its chances to properly raise interest rates, abandon the weak yen policy and put strong reforms in place.

Japan has issued its first new banknotes in two decades, with the redesigned bills featuring 3D holograms intended to thwart counterfeiters. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday said the ...

Sony acquires Amber Japan, marking its entry into the cryptocurrency exchange market.  Sony's acquisition boosted its stock price, Bitcoin ETF inflows, and BTC's price action.  Sony, Japan's ...

TOKYO: Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Wednesday as heavyweight technology stocks tracked US megacap growth stocks higher overnight. The Nikkei was up 0.81% at 40,398.35 as of 0142 GMT, after ...

Japan on Wednesday started issuing new 10,000 yen (61.9 U.S. dollars), 5,000 yen and 1,000 yen banknotes, which marked the first ...

The end of Japan's negative interest rate policy has helped in igniting some growth in the Japanese stock market with the Nikkei 225 hitting a high in 2024 ...

Japan's public-listed firm Metaplanet is on a Bitcoin buying spree! In a fresh announcement earlier today, Metaplanet declared the purchase of 20.2 ...

The Japanese e-commerce heavyweight Mercari has announced it will give away Bitcoin (BTC) as part of its latest promotion drive. Read more!

Sony Group acquired Amber Japan and is relaunching it as the S.BLOX Bitcoin and crypto exchange, marking Sony's expansion into the Bitcoin space.

Japanese conglomerate and consumer electronics giant Sony Group is reportedly preparing to unveil a crypto exchange platform in its home country.

Multiple upgrades will be introduced to the platform after Sony purchased Amber Japan last year via its subsidiary Quetta Web. Changes will be made to the exchange’s user interface, while the platform ...

Shytoshi Kusama, the mysterious lead developer and co-founder of the Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) project, hinted at plans for the aggressive promotion of Web3 across the world. What Happened: On Monday, ...

Amid a backdrop of significant currency fluctuations and anticipations of monetary policy shifts, Japan's stock markets have shown resilience, with notable gains in major indices. This environment ...

Sony Group’s foray into crypto continues with a rebrand of Amber Japan to S.BLOX after acquiring the crypto trading firm in 2023.

On Monday, Whalefin put out a notice that parent company Amber Japan was rebranding to S.BLOX. The notice added that the company was bought by Quetta Web, a unit of Sony, in August 2023. The financial ...

June 2024 saw several crypto hacks, which resulted in a net loss of nearly $176M. This loss represents a 54.2% decrease from May's total.