On November 2, Sky Mavis, the developer behind the popular monster-battle nonfungible tokens (NFT) game, announced a partnership with Korean gaming studio Act Games, to bring a variety of Japanese video game franchises to its native Ronin blockchain. In an email seen by Cointelegraph, the partnership revealed that the first game to be bridged to … Read more
The minister, Yoko Kamikawa, is also set to meet Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen during her two-day trip from Friday, as the crisis in Gaza”I hope to discuss how to respond to the grave humanitarian situation in the Gaza region as well as directly communicate Japan’s readiness to continue providing aid,” Kamikawa said of her … Read more
FILE – A Toyota logo is shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, on Sept. 13, 2023. Toyota’s July-September profit jumped nearly threefold from a year ago as vehicle sales grew around the world and a cheap yen boosted the Japanese automaker’s overseas earnings. A cheap yen is a plus for Japan’s … Read more
The government of the city of Warabi, just north of Tokyo, said in a statement an undetermined number of hostages were taken by a man “in possession of something like a handgun”. At least two female post office workers in their 20s and 30s were taken hostage, local media reported. A woman in her 20s … Read more
Japanese police on Tuesday surrounded a post office where a man with a gun was holed up, and said the case may be linked to an earlier apparent shooting at a nearby hospital in which two people were wounded. Saitama Prefectural Police said two men — a doctor in his 40s and a patient in … Read more
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police on Tuesday surrounded a post office where a man with a gun was holed up, and said the case may be linked to an earlier apparent shooting at a nearby hospital in which two people were wounded. Saitama Prefectural Police said two men — a doctor in his 40s and … Read more
Here is what you need to know on Tuesday, October 31: The Japanese Yen came under heavy selling pressure early Tuesdayfollowing the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) monetary policy announcements.Eurostat will release the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) data for October later in the session. USD EUR GBP CAD AUD JPY NZD CHF USD 0.19% … Read more
Japan’s minister of economy, trade and industry Yasutoshi Nishimura (R) and Japan’s minister for foreign affairs Yoko Kamikawa (C) attend the G7 trade ministers’ meeting in Osaka on October 29, 2023.The Group of Seven, or G7, industrial powers called on Sunday for the “immediate repeal” of import curbs on Japanese food products, a reference to … Read more