The Financial Services Agency of Japan (FSA) took a new step in its digital asset integration strategy by approving a regulatory framework that will allow the entry of foreign stablecoins into its formal financial system. The reform, published this May 19 and which will enter into force on June 1, 2026, recognizes certain stablecoins issued … Read more
The performance of the Japan’s 40-year government bonds soared to 4.344% this Monday, May 18, 2026. This level represents the highest since its launch in 2007 and a record for any maturity of Japanese sovereign debt in more than three decades. Over the past month, Japan’s 40-year government bond yield has risen by 0.55 points. … Read more
The asset is backed by the land of the AEON Omiya shopping complex. The estimated return reported is 3.4% per year before taxes. The Japanese firm Mitsui & Co. Digital Asset Management launched on May 12, 2026 a tokenized security backed by the land where the AEON Omiya shopping complex operates in Japan. The instrument … Read more
The Japanese financial conglomerate, SBI Holdings, announced this May 1, 2026 that it has begun formal negotiations to acquire a majority stake in Bitbank, one of the most important bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency exchanges in the Asian nation. This expansion occurs through the presentation of a letter of intent by Yoshitaka Kitao, president and CEO … Read more
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 the area around the northern city of aerial TV footage, five days after the Blaze … Read more
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 have burnt fire since the fire started on Wednesday. The agency said that at least … Read more
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 is in second place behind his father’s Crown Prince Akishino, the younger brother of Emperor … Read more
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 measures by former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s government to promote child-bear in 2023, births were … Read more
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 counterpart Gilberto Taodoro for a meeting in Manila for a meeting, including both the ministers, … Read more
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 Rubio, this statement may hold his first meetings on the occasion of the Munich Security … Read more