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Japanese winter festivals - part II

23 Feb 2020 2 minute read 8 comments PantheraNegra

Have you seen my first blog post on Japanese winter festivals? If you haven't got round to it yet, do have a look here - Japan winter festivals - you'll see some photos of incredible ice and snow festivals in Hokkaido!  Now I'm going to show you thre...

Japan's beautiful winter festivals - a tale of ice, snow and colour

21 Feb 2020 2 minute read 4 comments PantheraNegra

Japan celebrates winter It is very difficult not to be charmed by Japan and its people when visiting. This is a country of beautiful places, incredible history, amazing food, and an intriguing uniqueness that distinguishes it from anywhere else in t...

Blood Beat: The Place of Wind and Samurai Blood

18 Feb 2020 2 minute read 0 comments jxgrefe

This is a movie that stretches bold in its singularity. What follows are a series of fragmented thoughts, explorations of the cinematic melding. We've become a dark synth over grainy forgotten VHS wastelands in the woods. It's Christmas and mom has...

Cold Steel, And An Ode To Analogue Clockwork.

11 Feb 2020 5 minute read 2 comments ZackNorman97

Welcome to the third instalment of my tribute to Japanese and Asian timekeeping, following Part1, Part 2, and also my handy Handbook for all things horology, written by yours truly. For today, I'd like to introduce to you a watch that hasn't really m...

Are those developments meaning Japan could issue their own Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)?!!

30 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments alberdioni8406

The interest of Central Banks in issuance Of their own digital coin, is increasing as the traditional Methods of payments are becoming obsolete and the unique tech that could save the Financial Institutions, specially the the Central Banks is Blockch...

Binance will continue to oversee the Japanese market through strategic partnerships, confirmation from the CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange

19 Jan 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Roberto D.

We had already talked about it HERE, following an initial official communication, today the issue has become clearer, as always happens after each speech by Changpeng Zhao (the CEO of Binance); however, let's pick up the thread from the beginning, in...

Binance struggling with regulatory problems in Japan, the cryptocurrency exchange will block access to Japanese traders

17 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Roberto D.

The news came from yesterday and was published on the Japanese binance website, for which it is official; the cryptocurrency exchange, on the podium of the largest platforms for volumes traded globally, has communicated that it intends to limit acces...

Binance coming back to Japan?

17 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments glastar

Binance, known as the largest crypto exchange, started discussion with "Z Holdings", the major Japanese IT company aka Yahoo Japan, to negotiate for a strategic partnership with "Z Corporation"(subsidiary of Z Holdings) and "TaoTao", Japan based cryp...

Binance will operate a separate exchange in Japan.

17 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment alberdioni8406

Recently, Binance revealed that will start restrictions for the users in Japan to acess their trading Platform. This Friday the Largest Exchange in the world, aunnounced that will tie hands with a Yahoo subsidiary, Z corporation and a local Cryptocur...

Japan wants to halve the leverage available for cryptocurrency trading

16 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment Roberto D.

FSA, the Japanese agency for financial services, has proposed to halve the leverage in cryptocurrency trading from 4 to 2; the proposal was put forward today and, if approved, it would represent the first similar case in the country. Previously, in f...