A Japanese lawmaker asks the government to launch a national Bitcoin reserve, echoing similar recent calls from MPs in ...

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Nearly 90 per cent of all Japanese households have some form of life insurance, one of the highest rates in the world. A ...

The faces behind Japan’s post-war turbulence, restlessness and extreme passion. In the first part of our series, focusing on ...

The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation announced on Dec. 12 that the kanji character for 2024, which expresses the state ...

In the morning, as I was putting away my futon, my mother said, ‘Fumiko, Japan has finally gone to war with America and ...

A manuscript of commentaries about Confucianism written apparently between the sixth and early seventh centuries in China was confirmed in Japan, a discovery one scholar described as “invaluable.” ...

At the time of press, the USD/JPY pair was up 0.05% on the day at 152.55.

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