Pound hovers near one-year high; Japan’s SoftBank buys UK chipmaker Graphcore – business live | Business
Important Events Daniella Sabin HathornSenior Market Analyst at an Investment Firm Capital.comSaid: The British pound has maintained a bullish trend since the start of the preparations for the UK elections. The fact that the elections seemed easy and straightforward has given investors confidence in British assets, especially at a time of considerable political uncertainty around […]
How Japan’s newest yen note came from the Nepali mountains – CNN
Tokyo CNN — Banks across Japan on Wednesday began refilling ATMs with shiny new yen notes from an unlikely source: the bright yellow-flowering paperbush shrub that grows in the rugged Himalayan mountains of Nepal. Before finding its way into the wallets of Japanese consumers, yen notes undergo a long and complicated journey involving months of […]
Japan’s Fisheries Agency seeks to allow commercial catching of fin whales
Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed adding fin whales along with three smaller whale species to its commercial whaling program. The proposal comes five years after Japan resumed commercial whaling within its exclusive economic zone. Anti-whaling protests have declined since Japan moved to limited commercial whaling within its coasts. Japan’s Fisheries Agency on Thursday proposed a […]
Brazil’s Lula invites Japan’s prime minister to eat his country’s meat, and become a believer
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on his first visit to the country, the two sides met in the capital Brasilia, and the South American leader bought the other country’s beef. I urged him to do so. Brazil had hoped to use the bilateral talks to […]
Why has the yen fallen to a decade’s low and what does it mean for Japan’s economy? | Japan
The value of Japan’s currency has fallen significantly, returning its value to the level it was in 1990, just after Japan’s famous “bubble economy” burst. At one point on Monday, the dollar was trading at 160 yen. A few years ago, 1 dollar = nearly 100 yen. The accelerating depreciation of the yen could ultimately […]
Japan’s planning its first lunar steps with the Artemis program
The United States and Japan have signed an agreement that will change the direction of space exploration. According to the White House, In exchange for Japan providing a pressurized vehicle that would greatly expand astronauts’ ability to explore the moon, NASA plans to have two Japanese astronauts participate in future Artemis missions to the moon. […]
Biden hosting Clintons, Big Tech bigwigs at state dinner for Japan’s PM Fumio Kishida
WASHINGTON — President Biden hosted Bill and Hillary Clinton for a state dinner with billionaire Big Tech titans at the White House on Wednesday night to commemorate Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s visit. The Clintons and actor Robert De Niro also joined them at the head table in the White House East Room, where more than […]
Bonsai trees and a royal birthday: Japan’s imperial family dips a careful toe in world of Instagram | Japan
The rarefied world of Japan’s imperial family has entered the age of social media, but fans expecting selfies, emojis and casual shots of the emperor, empress, or off-the-beaten-path princes and princesses may be disappointed. A far cry from the photos of sunrises, sunsets and moments of mindfulness that form the stock traded on many Instagram […]
Japan’s Space One Kairos rocket explodes just seconds after inaugural flight
The Kairos, a small solid-fuel rocket made by Japan’s Space One, exploded shortly after its maiden launch on Wednesday as the company sought to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite into orbit. The 59-foot-long solid-fuel rocket exploded seconds after liftoff at 11:01 a.m., leaving large smoke, fire, rocket fragments and fire-fighting water […]
Japan’s SLIM moon probe unexpectedly survives lunar night
Japan’s space agency said on Monday that its lunar lander SLIM unexpectedly crashed on a freezing lunar night, more than a month after the spacecraft made a historic “pinpoint” touchdown on the moon’s surface. It announced on Monday that it had survived and re-established communications with Earth. The Smart Lunar Survey Lander (SLIM) landed on […]