Category: Tokyos
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Tokyo’s government plays matchmaker with new dating app to reverse its plunging birth rate
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Japan’s birth rate is so low that the government of its largest city will take desperate measures to help couples find love. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s latest innovative idea is to play Cupid by launching a dating app, and it has already set aside $1.28 million for its debut by…
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Yen weakness persists despite Tokyo’s $62 billion intervention By Reuters
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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese authorities spent 9.79 trillion yen ($62.23 billion) intervening in the foreign exchange market to support the yen over the past month, moves that prevented the currency from testing new lows but are unlikely to reverse long-term declines. Finance Ministry data released on Friday…