Savers frustrated with the paltry yields offered by banks in recent years appeared to have found a solution: so-called crypto lending accounts that pay interest rates as high as 18%. Millions piled ... ( read original story ...)
Report reveals half of Japan’s businesses had yet to ditch Internet Explorer
Microsoft has been sounding the death knell for Internet Explorer for months, but many businesses in Japan seemingly did not take heed. Almost half were said to still be using the browser, for which ... ( read original story ...)
Layoffs are on the rise in the midst of crypto winter
Hao Jia was so convinced in the potential of cryptocurrencies that he passed up a job at a large tech firm, Oracle, to take another offer he received in early April to be a software engineer at one of ... ( read original story ...)
How Crypto Can Regenerate The World
Kevin Owocki is the founder of Gitcoin, a funding platform for Web3 projects that are building for the public good. He’s on a mission to accelerate funding toward the most impactful world-positive ... ( read original story ...)
SEC Looks at Insider Trading on Crypto Exchanges
On Wednesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) initiated a probe into the way crypto exchanges are handling the growing problem of insider trading. According to F ... ( read original story ...)
Billionaire investor Jeff Gundlach says he won’t be shocked if bitcoin falls to $10,000, as ‘blow-ups’ rattle the crypto market
"We've already seen around the edges some blowups in parts of the crypto world, and that could be foreshadowing some problems," Jeff Gundlach said. ( read original story ...)
Traders Bet Dovish Bank of Japan to Capitulate After Swiss Shock
Currency options traders are betting the Bank of Japan will join global peers like the Swiss National Bank in roiling markets with a monetary-policy surprise this week.Most Read from BloombergChina ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo Passes Ordinance to Recognize Same-Sex Partnerships
Tokyo’s metropolitan assembly passed a bill on Wednesday to introduce a same-sex partnership system throughout the Japanese capital, expanding recognition of the LGBTQ community in the only Group of ... ( read original story ...)
TECHFUND Has Successfully Completed An Audit For Tokyo-Native Ethereum Blockchain Game My Crypto Heroes
TECHFUND Audits My Crypto Heroes What makes TECHFUND Audit unique Accel Audit logo We are pleased to announce that TECHFU ... ( read original story ...)
Japan is attending a NATO summit for the first time ever, prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he will attend the next NATO summit and that Russia should pay a "high price." ... ( read original story ...)
Japan hosts military symposium U.S. hopes will help contain China
Military commanders from Japan, the United States, South Korea, the Philippines and fourteen other countries met in Tokyo this week for a gathering that Washington hopes will help forge cooperation ... ( read original story ...)
Analysis: Bond vigilantes and the BOJ are breaking Japan’s bond market
Japan's government bond market is being pushed to breaking point in a contest between foreign speculators and the Bank of Japan, creating challenges for loan pricing and bond sales and raising the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan increases punishment for online insults to one year in prison following reality TV star’s death
Japan can already punish people convicted of "insultation" with a maximum of 30 days in prison or a fine under 10,000 yen (around $75). The amendment ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo counts 1,819 more coronavirus infections on June 16
The Japanese capital recorded 1,819 new COVID-19 cases on June 16 after reporting 2,015 infections the previous day, the Tokyo Metropolitan G ... ( read original story ...)
Japan Increases Legal Punishment for Cyberbullying After Death of ‘Terrace House’ Star
Japan has made online insults punishable by up to a year in prison in an effort to combat cyberbullying. Moves to amend the country’s penal code gained momentum after Hana Kimura, a 22-year-old ... ( read original story ...)
Can the four-day week take off in Japan?
With Japan's traditionalist work culture set to clash with the radicalism of the four-day week, we examine how proposals to inject more flexibility into the economy will fare ... ( read original story ...)