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Japan-based financial services firm SBI Group has announced its plans to establish several new businesses based on digital currency. The group is simultaneously developing eight businesses including hedge fund management, mining, and a deri

A Japanese national cryptocurrency will allow its finance sector to “use data to create new value” not possible with traditional setups. This is according to comments from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) CEO Nobuyuki Hirano, who is al

As Japan tries to tackle the reality of wildlife overpopulation, a government ministry is tapping a blockchain to streamline the meat supply chain process that will enable end consumers to trace the history of the meat, from the hunting gro

A Japanese financial services group is drawing plans to issue its own tradeable digital currency to be used for payments and instant P2P transfers. Japan’s SBI Holdings, a major financial services group already invested in digital currencie

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued operating licenses to 11 bitcoin exchanges. In an announcement today, the regulator confirmed the action, one that follows an amendment to the payment services law that mandated all cryptoc

Beginning October, Japanese Bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges will be fully surveilled and investigated by local authorities as a part of a larger initiative to create a more regulated and robust Japanese Bitcoin exchange market. Earlier

Japan’s financial regulator will closely monitor and scrutinize bitcoin exchanges in the country from October. Japanese bitcoin exchanges will reportedly be under “full surveillance” by the Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s financial

The digital currencies NEO, OmiseGo and TenX are experiencing slight or no movement during trading as of late August 2017 when compared to previous weeks or months. Such a situation is believed to be due to the start of the “ Ghost Month ”

Major Japanese customer-to-customer ticket exchange marketplace, Ticket Camp, has announced that it is already accepting the digital currency Bitcoin as a form of payment. The move is a major boost to the cryptocurrency as the exchange has

NTT Data, Japan’s largest IT services firm, has announced a new blockchain consortium with members representing a number of varying industries. In an announcement this week, NTT Data unveiled details of the working group which will see 13 f

Over the past few months, through previous coverages, Cointelegraph emphasized the importance of the Japanese Bitcoin industry to the Bitcoin exchange market in Asia. Earlier this week, many analysts and financial news networks including CN

Major Japanese retail store chain Marui has signed a partnership agreement with Bitcoin exchange Bitflyer that will enable it to accept Bitcoin payments in stores starting August 7. With this move, Marui becomes the first large department s