THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 29, 2020 at 15:12 JST
Takeshi Kimura, director-general of the Bank of Japan's Payment and Settlement Systems Department, in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun (Tetsuya Kasai)
The Bank of Japan will begin substantive testing of digital currency it might one day issue as fears rise in the government and ruling Liberal Democratic Party that China could debut one first, posing a national security threat. [Read More]
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A series about Japanese-Americans and their memories of World War II
Here is a collection of first-hand accounts by “hibakusha” atomic bomb survivors.
