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Bitcoin may be on song, but there’s plenty more keeping fans abuzz in the crypto verse. Over the past month a new cohort of memecoins have been delivering windfall gains to investors. Scripted with generous lashings of community humour these new coins such as X, Dogwifhat, Peanut the Squirrel, Popcat and Goatseus Maximus have crypto investors in thrall following Donald Trump’s ascension as US President Elect and Tesla founder Elon Musk’s consequent rise having triggered an explosion in crypto valuations. Even as Bitcoin is inching closer to the $100,000 mark having surged 49% over the last month, Dogwifhat, the Japanese dog with a hat, touched a market cap of $3.3 billion, making it the 36th ranked coin among 2.4 million currencies. Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) surged by 2,315% since its launch this month,according to CoinMarketCap, a price-tracking website for cryptocurrencies.

contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of an emergency over Taiwan, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. They will be incorporated in a first joint operation plan to be formulated in December, according to sources familiar with Japan-US relations, Kyodo said late Sunday. A US Marine regiment which possesses the multiple-launch HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) would be deployed along Japan's Nansei island chain stretching from Kyushu to Yonaguni near Taiwan, Kyodo said.

Iran will hold talks about its disputed nuclear programme with three European powers on November 29, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Sunday, days after the U.N. atomic watchdog passed a resolution against Tehran, as per a report. Iran reacted to the resolution — proposed by Britain, France, Germany and the United States — with what government officials called various measures such as activating numerous new and advanced centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium, Reuters reported. Japan's Kyodo news agency, which first reported that the meeting would take place on Friday in Geneva, said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's government was seeking a solution to the nuclear impasse ahead of the inauguration in January of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. I have always enjoyed making booklists once a year, scanning award lists for old favourites as much as new authors . Nowadays the end of the year has me making a similar list for tea.

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Going by this ratio, different countries in the world have different moments of overvaluation. Japan in 1997-90, Singapore in 1993-94 and again in 2006-07, China and India in 2007, UK in 2007 and 2014.

Ikigai, the Japanese way of living that involves finding your life's purpose. It seems like a simple Venn diagram where you constantly seek the intersection of what you are good at, what you enjoy doing, what makes you money and what the world needs. It helps you discover your passion, your mission, your profession and your vocation, and if all these things align, you live the perfect life-or at least that's how it has been presented.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TOKYO—Japan’s cabinet on Friday approved an economic stimulus package worth more than $140 billion, in Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s latest push to tackle inflation and boost growth after his coalition suffered a bruising electoral defeat last month. The package totalling 21.9 trillion yen, equivalent to $141.71 billion, is aimed at easing rising living costs and promoting business innovation and investment.

China is going to expand visa-free entry to citizens of nine more countries as it seeks to boost tourism and business travel to help revive a sluggish economy

Japan has approved a $250 billion economic stimulus package centered around initiatives intended to boost incomes

Mahindra Lifespace Developers Ltd. (MLDL), the real estate and infrastructure development arm of the Mahindra Group, has extended its partnership with Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation for the second phase of their joint industrial parks project in Tamil Nadu. The company, through its subsidiary Mahindra World City Developers (MWCDL), has entered into a supplemental agreement that involves an investment of around Rs 225 crores by MWCDL and Sumitomo Corporation in Mahindra Industrial Park Chennai Ltd (MIPCL), in proportion to their existing shareholding. The joint venture agreement was originally signed in 2015. “The partnership with Sumitomo Corporation, reflects our commitment to fostering progress and enabling industries to thrive sustainably,” said Amit Kumar Sinha, Managing Director & CEO, Mahindra Lifespace Developers.

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Japan's Tokyo is seeing foreign men now flocking to Tokyo for “sex tourism” as against the tradition of Japanese men travelling to foreign lands for it, reported The Star. “Japan has become a poor country,” he told This Week in Asia at the organisation’s offices. Nearby, in a park that’s become synonymous with the city’s sex trade, young women wait for customers before the sun has even set. Tanaka’s organisation noticed an increasing number of foreigners frequenting the park as soon as pandemic-era travel restrictions were dropped. This influx has coincided with a troubling rise in teenagers and women in their early twenties turning to the sex industry to survive alongside an alarming increase in violence.

Asian stock rise following gains on Wall Street after market superstar Nvidia and other companies said they’re making even fatter profits than expected

Wall Street as investors shook off initial concerns over Nvidia Corp.’s revenue outlook. Bitcoin edged closer to $100,000 while the dollar gained. Shares in Australia and Japan advanced. An index of US-listed Chinese stocks fell 1% Thursday, running against the grain of trading in New York but partly reflecting selling in Hong Kong stocks in their most recent session.

Donald Trump has put Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy in charge of finding ways to cut government spending and regulations

Piyush Goyal Thursday said that India will be cautious in its opening up process till the time it is an emerging economy and it has to maintain a balance between protecting the needs of industry and the different levels of economic development of other countries and non-market economies when it comes to investment. At an event organised by the UK-India Business Council, he also said that India is going to bring out a new legal framework to ensure data privacy that would encourage free flow of data among trusted partners. “Till we are yet an emerging economy or a developed economy, I'll certainly need to have a little bit more caution in my opening up process,” Goyal said.

A Scottish dairy is making the audacious bid to sell what it’s calling Britain's most expensive cup of coffee

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. NEW DELHI : Japanese telecom and technology major Rakuten Group, Inc. expects growth from open radio access network (Open RAN) solutions it offers to telecom service providers in global markets, though some of its deals are yet to pan out in the Indian market.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Each year China makes as much steel as the rest of the world combined. The vast scale of its output—around 1bn tonnes a year—is obscured by the fact that most of it stays in the country.