The U.S. dollar is now trading at about 130 yen after rising to about 150 Japanese yen a few months ago. Get ready for your week with the week’s top business stories from San Diego and California, in ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese gangsters ‘organised violent Tokyo robberies’ from Philippine prison
Japan has extradited members of a gang accused of organising violent robberies via digital messages sent from their cells in a prison in the Philippines.Kiyoto ... ( read original story ...)
Japan calls Russian presence in Northern Territories ‘illegal occupation’
Japan on Tuesday accused Russia of illegally occupying disputed islands off Hokkaido in another sign of weakening relations between the two countries since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. ( read original story ...)
LGBTQ groups demand Japan adopt equal rights law by G-7
Japanese LGBTQ people and rights groups have condemned a recent discriminatory remark by a senior aide of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, demanding his government enact laws to ban discrimination ... ( read original story ...)
Alarming Japanese Knotweed outbreak tackled with vast burial pits
Huge burial pits have been dug in an effort to stamp out an alarming outbreak of building-wrecking Japanese Knotweed. Listed by the World Conservation Unit as one of the world’s worst invasive species ... ( read original story ...)
Japan buys record 5.6 tril. yen in covert October intervention
Japan's Finance Ministry says the government and the central bank conducted a record single-day yen-buying against the dollar in October. The aim was to stop the sharpest drop in the value of the ...
NFTs are back, and this time they could wreck havoc on the crypto market
People are borrowing against their NFTs in record numbers, which begs the question how such a volatile asset could be used as collateral.
FTX’s new boss says security was so weak that founders could ‘download half a billion dollars’ of crypto without detection, report says
FTX's new CEO described the "massive scramble for information" as liquidators looked to secure customers' passwords and crypto wallets.
Crypto Brands Reposition Themselves in Wake of FTX and Market Tumble
Once crypto was marketed as the transgressive future of finance. Now its message is simpler: dependability, transparency and trust. As one crypto chief put it: ‘Boring is not bad.’ ...
AI Crypto Tokens Fetch, Singularity Rally More Than 20% Overnight
As the artificial intelligence narrative grows louder, several AI-adjacent cryptocurrencies have enjoyed hefty rallies.
Hackers tied to North Korea stole $630 million in crypto last year in their biggest haul ever, UN reportedly finds
"It isn't a stretch to say that cryptocurrency hacking is a sizable chunk of the nation's economy," blockchain data firm Chainalysis said last week.
Canada’s Hut 8 Mining to merge with US Bitcoin to weather crypto downturn
Bitcoin are seen in this illustration picture taken September 27, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo ...
Crypto Custody Tech Firm Metaco Taps IBM Execs to Revamp Institutional Push
The Swiss crypto tech provider hired IBM’s Peter DeMeo as head of product, as well as former IBM lead architect, Angel Nunez Mencias.
(OFFICIAL) SoftBank tumbles to loss as Vision Fund in red for fourth straight quarter
Japan's SoftBank Group Corp fell to a quarterly loss on Tuesday, as its giant Vision Fund investment unit remained in the red for a fourth straight quarter, sharpening focus on when markets will ...
Yokohama Rubber opens indoor ice testing facility at Tire Test Center of Hokkaido
Yokohama has been operating a new indoor ice circle test facility at its Tire Test Center of Hokkaido (TTCH) in Japan. The site – which is housed within a 56 x 56m building and has a 1,960m2 ice surfa ... ( read original story ...)
Tokyo man, ex-wife nabbed for allegedly brainwashing girl with view to sexual assault
Tokyo police on Tuesday arrested a polyamorous 74-year-old man and one of his ex-wives for allegedly brainwashing an adolescent girl ... ( read original story ...)