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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.
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 10, 2014
Corporate bankruptcies hit 23-year low in February
Corporate bankruptcies in February fell 14.6 percent from a year earlier to 916, the lowest for the month in 23 years, a credit research agency said Monday.
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 / 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.
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2008
Mobile phones take over
Japan has become a nation of mobile-phone talkers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication reported this month. More people now talk on mobile phones in Japan than on fixed-line phones; total talk time on mobile phones reached an astonishing 1.9 billion hours in 2007. That's a lot of metal and plastic against a lot of ears for a lot of time! Who would have guessed there was so much to say?
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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