Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) is working on a regulatory reform that would completely change the way the country supervises crypto assets. The plan contemplates reclassifying 105 cryptocurrencies listed on national exchanges – including bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) – ...
Tokyo – Firefighting was battling Japan’s worst forest fire in half a century on Tuesday, which left a dead and forced around 4,000 local residents to withdraw. White smoke from a forest area of the northern city was shown in ...
Tokyo – Japan is fighting a forest fire that damaged dozens of houses and forced hundreds of residents to vacate a northeast coastal city. According to the fire and disaster management agency, about 2,100 hectares (5.190 acres) of the fire ...
Tokyo – The Japanese prince, who can become an emperor one day if the succession laws of the country are not replaced, said in his first press conference on Monday that he would try to fulfill his royal duties. He ...
Tokyo – On Thursday, the Health Ministry underlined the rapid aging and the decrease of the population, saying that the number of infants born in Japan in 2024 decreased by 720,988 for the ninth consecutive year in 2024. Despite the ...
Manila, Filipin – Japanese Defense Minister General Nakani said on Monday that Japan and the Philippines on Monday agreed to deepen the defense relations in front of the “rapidly serious” security environment in the Indo-Pacific region. Nakatani met his Philippine ...
Munich – According to a joint statement by the three colleagues released on Saturday, the United States, Japan and South Korea renewed the pledge of their “resolve” to search for North Korea’s “complete nuclearization”. After the new US Secretary Marco ...
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday. Japanese officials say they want to confirm the US-Japan alliance and have a strong personal relationship between Ishiba and Trump. VOA bills report ...
The authorities of the Asian country are sending clear signals that a rate hike is coming Unlike what happened in 2024, the US economy shows no signs of recession. The Bank of Japan will meet starting this Thursday, January 23, ...
Tokyo— Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will visit South Korea on Monday to boost security cooperation between the East Asian neighbors and their mutual US ally, aimed at countering China’s growing regional power. The Japanese government said it is the ...