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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / ANALYSIS
Aug 31, 2016
Cryptocurrency exchanges under attack, risking repeat of Mt. Gox debacle
When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 30, 2016
New digital currency Monero spikes after giving criminals more secrecy
Forget Bitcoin.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2016
Bitcoin sinks after hackers steal $65 million from exchange
Bitcoin plunged after one of the largest exchanges halted trading because hackers stole about $65 million (¥6.6 billion) of the digital currency.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 11, 2016
Bitcoin operators await regulation in Japan amid push for legitimacy and widespread use
Bitcoin operators are keenly watching the Diet as it deliberates bills to regulate the currency, believing the legislation is key to regaining the public trust's in the virtual tender and luring more players to the industry.
BUSINESS
May 2, 2016
Australian programmer confirms he invented bitcoin
Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Wright told the BBC on Monday he was the creator of controversial digital currency bitcoin, ending years of speculation about a person who until now has gone by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 11, 2015
Magazine claims Australian entrepreneur is man behind bitcoin
Craig Steven Wright, an Australian, is the latest in a line of men alleged to be the mysterious creator of bitcoin, a digital currency that has attracted the interest of banks, speculators, criminals and regulators.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 9, 2015
Police raid Sydney home of alleged bitcoin mastermind
Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, witnesses said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 22, 2015
Bitcoin firm head pleads guilty to first-of-kind Ponzi scheme
A Texas man pleaded guilty to defrauding people out of $4.5 million in what the U.S. said was a first-of-its-kind Ponzi scheme involving investments in the virtual currency bitcoin.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 3, 2015
Singapore firm Quoine sees bitcoin being big in Japan
Many Japanese may be skeptical about the encrypted currency bitcoin due to last year's Mt. Gox fiasco, but a Singapore-based venture sees a big opportunity in fostering a bitcoin market in Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 16, 2015
Mt. Gox chief was thought by U.S. to be Silk Road mastermind
The former head of the bankrupt Mt. Gox Co. bitcoin exchange was originally believed by U.S. investigators to be the secret mastermind behind the Silk Road online drug marketplace, an agent who infiltrated the website told jurors at the trial of the man prosecutors now accuse of running it.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 4, 2014
Bitcoin policymaker tries to gain converts before election
The man who single-handedly made Japan an oasis for bitcoin entrepreneurs was holding court with political supporters. The price of admission: ¥10,000.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 28, 2014
Horie sees bitcoin as route to more security, less government
The failure earlier this year of Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox may have stirred Japanese doubts about the credibility of the digital currency.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2014
Bitcoin exchange Kraken to help in Mt. Gox bankruptcy
U.S. bitcoin exchange operator Payward Inc said on Wednesday it will work on retrieving some millions of dollars lost by Tokyo-based Mt. Gox, once the world's largest bitcoin exchange before it collapsed in bankruptcy this year.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 10, 2014
Bitcoin payments by pedophiles frustrate child porn battle
In a two-story building in the English university town of Cambridge, researchers at the U.K.'s Internet Watch Foundation pore over online images of sexually abused children in an effort to remove them from the Web. It is dispiriting work, and this year it grew more complicated when they found a new payment...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 18, 2014
Mt. Gox insider's Kraken exchange to open in Japan next month
Jesse Powell knew Mt. Gox was not long for this world more than two years before the once-dominant bitcoin exchange went bankrupt in February.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 23, 2014
Ex-Goldman trader says his bitcoin exchange will fill Mt. Gox void
Yuzo Kano quit Goldman Sachs Group Inc. twice: once for a rival bank, the second time to open Japan's first bitcoin exchange since the collapse of Mt. Gox.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2014
Mt. Gox gets bankruptcy OK
Mt. Gox Co., once the world's largest bitcoin exchange, won approval of its U.S. bankruptcy filing, giving a boost to the Japanese investigation into the disappearance of 650,000 units of the digital currency.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 29, 2014
Bitcoin traders settle suit over failed Mt. Gox
U.S. and Canadian customers of failed Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox have agreed to settle their proposed class-action lawsuits that alleged the company defrauded them of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 21, 2014
Mt. Gox CEO Karpeles sought both control, escape
In June 2011, when customers of now-bankrupt bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox agitated for proof that the Tokyo-based firm was still solvent after a hacking attack, CEO Mark Karpeles turned to the comedy science fiction novel "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy".
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2014
U.S. court can't reach Mt. Gox's Karpeles: lawyer
Mt. Gox Co. principal Mark Karpeles is beyond the reach of a U.S. court where he and the bankrupt bitcoin exchange are being sued for consumer fraud by two American depositors, his attorney told a federal judge.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.

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