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Finance

Crypto Lender Amber Group Weighs Selling Japan Unit: Bloomberg

Managing partner Annabelle Huang said that despite Japan being a "high-quality market ... regulations are strict."

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Policy

G-7 Will Focus on Helping Developing Nations Introduce CBDCs

"The collapse of FTX was a serious wakeup call on the need for proper consistent regulation across borders," said Masato Kanda, Japan's senior financial diplomat.

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Japan Greenlights White Paper to Promote Web3 Growth in the Country

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Web3 project team has published a white paper laying out recommendations for growing the country’s industry. CoinDesk Executive Director of Global Content Emily Parker weighs in on the state of Web3 adoption in Japan and the regulatory headwinds in the U.S.

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Policy

Japan Approves Web3 White Paper to Promote Industry Growth in the Country

The document proposes more tax reforms, clearer accounting standards and a DAO law.

Akihisa Shiozaki, a member of Japan's House of Representatives, is leading a team that is helping form policies for Web3. (Okonogi Airi)

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Japan Regulator Warns 4 Crypto Exchanges for Operating Without Registration

Japan's Financial Services Agency said in a warning letter that foreign crypto exchanges Bybit, BitForex, MEXC Global and Bitget are operating in the country without proper registration. "The Hash" panel weighs in on the crypto regulatory framework in Japan.

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Japan Regulator Flags 4 Crypto Exchanges Including Bybit for Operating Without Registration

Bitget, BitForex and MEXC Global were also named in the Financial Services Agency's warning letter.

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Japan's Finance Ministry to Explore Digital Yen Feasibility: Report

Bank of Japan officials have said they don't have concrete plans to issue a digital currency.

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G-7 Will Push for Tighter Global Crypto Regulations: Kyodo

Discussions on a global framework will speed up ahead of a May meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 7 countries.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will host this year's G-7 summit in Hiroshima, where a statement on crypto policy will be made, according to a Japanese news outlet. (Zhang Xiaoyu - Pool/Getty Images)

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Japan’s Web3 Era

Japan pushes for technology expansion in the Web3 space with the metaverse and NFTs. That story and other news shaping the cryptocurrency world in this episode of "The Daily Forkast."

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Finance

Three Japanese Banks Start Stablecoin Experiment

The institutions involved are Tokyo Kiraboshi Financial Group, Minna no Bank and The Shikoku Bank.

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