The night sky over Tokyo was a blaze of color as the capital held its first fireworks display in three years on Aug. 20. ( read original story ...)
A Romance Scammer Took All Your Crypto. Who Ya Gonna Call?
Love scams hit a record high last year, with fraudsters fooling lonely hearts into sending their life savings in hard-to-recover cryptocurrency.
Sudden crypto market drop sends bitcoin below $22,000
Bitcoin on Friday fell to its lowest level in more than three weeks, dipping below $22,000 amid a sudden crypto sell-off in early European trading. Bitcoin briefly plunged from $22,738 to below ...
Japan considers deploying long-range missiles to counter China – Yomiuri
Japan is considering the deployment of 1,000 long-range cruise missiles to boost its counterattack capability against China, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday. ( read original story ...)
Japan May Stockpile More Than 1,000 Missiles, Yomiuri Reports
Japan is considering amassing an arsenal of more than 1,000 of its planned long-range missiles, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, citing unidentified people with knowledge of the plans. ( read original story ...)
From Aramco to Visa, here are top 10 largest IPOs of all time
NTT Mobile Communication Network This Tokyo-based telecommunications player raised $18.1 billion when its IPO was floated on 22 October 1998. Headquartered in San Francisco, this company specializes ...
SoftBank sold Alibaba shares to reassure investors, finance chief admits
SoftBank sold a large part of its stake in Alibaba to “instantly show” investors its finances were solid after logging a record quarterly loss of $23bn, the technology conglomerate’s chief financial ...
Sister of in-utero A-bomb survivor shares story and urges world to abolish nuclear weapons
I would ask only that my brother get a chance to live in a world with no atomic bombs, no nuclear weapons -- a world without war." These were the words Yoko Nakai, 71, wrote in a letter addressed to ... ( read original story ...)
Japan: Govt. investigates mistreatment of pregnant foreign trainees for the first time
Japan gov't investigating mistreatment of pregnant foreign trainees ] 20 August 2022. The Japanese government is conducting a survey to determine whether foreign technical traine ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Mitsui nears decision to join new Sakhalin-2 operator, Nikkei reports
Japanese trading firm Mitsui & Co is close to making a final decision to join a new Russian operator for the Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, the Nikkei newspaper said, without citing ...
Crypto Is Tumbling, but in Argentina It’s Still a Safer Bet
Even though cryptocurrencies have lost value, many Argentines see them as a less risky choice than their own currency, whose worth has plunged as inflation has soared.
Ethereum Overhaul Risks Creating a New Class of Crypto Kingpins
This seemingly geeky change, part of a portion of the software upgrade that is called MEV-Boost, could potentially make Ethereum more centralized, at least initially. While there are already more than ...
The social aspects and sense of community are the crypto market’s biggest allure and its biggest danger, experts say
The social aspect is an alluring part of crypto - and that's been a dangerous pitfall for some investors, as FOMO encourages big risk taking.
Baseball: Swallows slugger Munetaka Murakami swinging for home run history
Munetaka Murakami suggested Saturday he has his eye on making home run history. His two bombs in the Yakult Swallows' 7-2 win over the Chunichi Dragons tied the Central League club's record for home ... ( read original story ...)
Japam: Kids Engineer 2022 held in Yokohama, automakers participate
These are little car models which have been developed by little kids This scene was witnessed at the Kids Engineer 2022 which was recently held in Yokohama Japan where children learned about ... ( read original story ...)
Trans Woman Can’t Be Considered Parent Of Her Own Child, Rules Tokyo Court
The court said the woman is the legal parent of a daughter born before her transition but not one who was born afterward. ( read original story ...)