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BITCOIN

Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 18, 2014
Cabinet to mull bitcoin regulation 'if necessary'
The Abe administration decided Tuesday to consider taking steps to regulate bitcoin trading, if necessary, after obtaining more information about the digital currency.
BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2014
Mizuho caught up in suits against Mt. Gox
Mizuho Bank becomes ensnared in North American legal fallout from the collapse of bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox last month, following a massive cybertheft.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2014
U.S. senator's criticism of bitcoin is misguided for playing down investors' love of the game
It isn't clear why bitcoin deflation matters to the U.S. economy. Goods and services aren't priced in bitcoins. The buyer who 'spends' bitcoins at a restaurant or store is just exchanging them for dollars, which do the buying.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Mar 15, 2014
Why criminals love bitcoins so
Criminals may already have made off with $500 million worth of bitcoins since the virtual currency was launched in 2009 — and you can double that if they emptied Mt. Gox's coffers.
EDITORIALS
Mar 13, 2014
Regulating bitcoins
Japan will have to cooperate with other countries to prevent the use of bitcoin for illegal purposes. Some people, though, look forward to the convenience of bitcoin.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2014
Brokerage watchdog warns of bitcoin risks
The bitcoin digital currency can expose people to significant losses, fraud and theft, and the lure of a potential quick profit should not blind investors to its significant risks, a brokerage industry watchdog warns.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 11, 2014
Mt. Gox safe from U.S. suits in bankruptcy case
Mt. Gox Co., the bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy in Tokyo after millions of dollars' worth of virtual currency vanished from customer accounts, won a temporary halt to lawsuits it faces in the U.S.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2014
Cabinet: Bitcoin is not a currency
Under Japanese law, bitcoins are not recognized as currency and transactions using it should be taxed based on the income, corporate and consumption tax laws, the Cabinet announces.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2014
Callers to Mt. Gox need translators
Mt. Gox, which collapsed after losing 750,000 bitcoins belonging to clients on its exchange, is finding that some customers dialing in to its new call center are getting lost in translation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Mar 1, 2014
Japan finds bitcoins can bite back, too
Tokyo has once again become the center of a world-wobbling virtual financial crisis. Let me emphasize the word virtual. That's because the world's best-known and perhaps largest exchange of the virtual currency known as bitcoin — Mt. Gox, located in Tokyo's Shibuya district — appeared to have all but collapsed last week.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Mar 1, 2014
Bitcoin believers unfazed by losses in Mt. Gox collapse
Like other bitcoin evangelists, Ken Shishido is ready to write off the money he lost in the bankruptcy of Tokyo-based virtual currency exchange Mt. Gox as the price of revolutionizing global finance.
WORLD
Feb 28, 2014
Bitcoin-wise Ukraine protesters tap digital money's global reach
Ukrainian activists are turning to bitcoins to fund a three-month protest in Kiev's Independence Square that helped oust President Viktor Yanukovych amid violence that left at least 82 people dead.
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2014
Government will finally study bitcoins: Aso
Finance Minister Taro Aso expressed eagerness Friday to hold discussions with other ministers and government agencies about what is behind the recent trouble in the bitcoin virtual currency market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 27, 2014
Mt. Gox bitcoin clients lack options
What can you do if you deposited bitcoins at Mt. Gox, which shuttered with little explanation? Probably not much.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 7, 2014
Will the bitcoin bite the dust?
Bitcoin was one of Oxford Dictionaries' runners-up for the word of the year for 2013. The virtual currency has received a partial blessing from the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve. But will it bite the dust because of its volatility?
BUSINESS
Sep 1, 2013
Bitcoin bourse Tradehill freezes trading to deal with regulatory issues
Tradehill Inc., an exchange for virtual currencies such as Bitcoin, is temporarily suspending trading, citing unspecified banking and regulatory reasons.
LIFE / Digital
Apr 10, 2013
Bitcoin has financial powers nervous
Among the many unpleasant discoveries made by those who stashed their cash in Cypriot banks is that the island's government could stop them moving their money elsewhere. Capital controls are supposed to be a thing of the past, a figment of the pre-globalized world. But it turns out that when banks are threatened, the gloves come off.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 6, 2013
Soaring value of bitcoins raises fears of potential financial 'cyberbubble'
A currency surging in value at a breathtaking rate and belonging to no nation is being hailed as a revolution in 'financial free speech' by its diverse group of users.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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