Japan

Medirom Healthcare Technologies Inc. will operate World ID verification sites across Japan under a master service agreement.The rollout will use Medirom’s roughly 300 locations...

Tencent Holdings has gained access to NVIDIA's advanced Blackwell chips via a Tokyo-based cloud provider. Datasection, operating data centers in Japan and Australia, will supply...

Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%, the highest since 1995. The announcement led to a sharp rebound...

Japan’s financial regulator plans to require crypto exchanges to hold liability reserves for customer protection starting 2026.The cold-wallet exemption allowing exchanges to avoid reserves...

PayPay has integrated its peer-to-peer electronic money service, PayPay Money, with Binance Japan to facilitate crypto transactions.Users can now deposit and withdraw cryptocurrency directly...

Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to classify cryptocurrencies as financial products under existing law.The proposal requires disclosures and insider trading rules for 105 crypto...

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, will halt new user registrations in Japan starting October 31, 2025.This pause aligns with new...

Japan launched Asia’s first fully convertible yen-backed stablecoin, JPYC, enabling global circulation.The yen’s full convertibility supports a new blockchain-based carry trade linking DeFi yields...