Los Angeles Times

Bargain hunting at Japan’s 100-yen stores

The Japanese are legendary shoppers, paying top prices from Honolulu to Helsinki for gifts and adornments. In Tokyo, a walk through the department stores and Pritzker Prize-winner-designed boutiques ...
GIGAZINE

The world's smallest 3D printer, just the size of a 100 yen coin, has been developed, with hopes for applications in the medical field and elsewhere

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin is developing a prototype of a tiny 3D printer that is roughly the same size as a 25-cent coin ...
Reuters

Dollar poised to overtake 100 yen milestone on bold BOJ steps

TOKYO, April 8 (Reuters) - A U.S. dollar bill could soon be worth the same as a Japanese 100-yen coin for the first time since April 2009, as investors price in the Bank of Japan's aggressive monetary ...
Los Angeles Times

Bargain hunting at Japan’s 100-yen stores

The Japanese are legendary shoppers, paying top prices from Honolulu to Helsinki for gifts and adornments. In Tokyo, a walk through the department stores and Pritzker Prize-winner-designed boutiques ...
Chicago Tribune

Dollar poised to overtake 100 yen milestone on bold BOJ steps

mark against the dollar, as the Japanese central bank took its first steps to whip deflation under its bold new scheme. Once that milestone is breached, some strategists say ...