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B: Japan

• Real wages fall 0.5%. 3rd consecutive year of falls. 
• 3rd generation Korean sues hotel over requirement to show passport on check in. 
• Foreigners taking advantage of easy process to acquire Japan drivers license. 
• Brown/Yellow rice spotted at sushi chain. 
• Yoshinoya pivots to ramen. 
• Bitcoin inflooencers again Tweeting about Japan financial health
• “Orange Wednesday” as Metaplanet trading halted for second consecutive day. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• is lighting still a thing?
• https://x.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1923225678603784674?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign
• https://x.com/ryanthegentry/status/1923456456302461112?s=46
• Burn
• https://x.com/bitcoinisaiah/status/1923772541295886444?s=46

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B: Japan

• LDP considers doubling the issuance of stockpiled rice as prices remain high. 
• LDP mulls upfront payments for health insurance for foreigners.
• LDP launches special committee to look into “迷惑行為” of foreigners. 
• Scope of industries under the Specified Skilled Worker visa for foreigners to be expanded again.
• Japan, Korea introduce bilateral express immigration lines for one another’s citizens in their respective airports. 
• Japanese novel “Butter” wins plaudits overseas. 
• Fuji Oil pioneers chocolate bars… not containing any chocolate. 
• Fukushima sake maker 金水晶酒造 to sell rights to sake using NFTs. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• Are Bitcoin treasury companies this cycles shitcoins?
• https://x.com/stackhodler/status/1922198111461769503?s=46

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B: Japan

• Golden Week comes to an end. 
• Marked reduction in domestic tourism this GW. 
• Government raises target of tourists to 60M by 2030. 
• Osaka Expo visitor numbers disappoint. 
• MyNumber watch: banks & mobile carriers will require either MyNumber card or drivers license (which is merging with MyNumber card) from 2026, for online 
• Online brokers to require 2FA from this June. 
• Taisei Corporation pays out 1million JPY to staff being relocated to try to prevent people quitting. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• op return. Do we care? 
• https://x.com/mrhodl/status/1919565103566901445?s

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B: Japan

• Tokyo CPI up 3.4%, accelerates. Rice up 93.8%. Beer up 6.7%. Cat food up 37%
• Number of Mulsims living in Japan increases dramatically. (350,000 as of 2023)
• 30% of University students projected to be non Japanese by 2055 
• Latest creepy tourist LARP is to pay to “attend Japanese school for a day”. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• Mallers joins the titans
• https://x.com/tftc21/status/1915053416663171156?s=46
• https://x.com/adambliv/status/1915220871699890312?s=46

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B: Japan

• “Butsukari Otoko” a growing problem? 
• More bad tourist behavior–entitled white women on trains, YouTubers playing loud music on the Yamanote. 
• Government considers increasing US rice imports as part of tariff negotiations. 
• BYD targeting the Japan Kei Car market. Tesla sales up 56% in the first quarter of the year. 
• Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa wears a "MAGA" cap presented to him by Orange Ceaser. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• has bitcoin accomplished anything 
• https://fountain.fm/episode/7I2w1yeEdzUx2QvyEOpa

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B: Japan

• Population declines by 800k in 2024. Foreign population grows 10% to 3.7M 
• Komeito calls for stimmy to be paid in MyNumber points. 
• IIJ leak emails of 4million users. 
• AWS outage hits AU Pay, PayPay
• Japan issues cease and desist order against Google
• Sony Playstation to increase price in Europe and Australia
• Lightning Marche happening at Yotsuya TBB Saturday 26th from noon. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• Does this impact the Bitcoin thesis 
• https://x.com/theworthyhouse/status/1910362532423835867?s

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B: Japan

• Government releases emergency rice supplies as prices continue to climb. 
• 20M JPY / year salary the new 10M JPY? 
• Government considers 40,000-50,000JPY stimmy checks to deal with Trump tariffs.
• Ishiba calls Orange Ceaser over tariffs 
• George Glass confirmed as new ambassador to Japan
• Ishiba spotted buying lighters sporting his own face. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• Bitcoin on square terminals
• https://x.com/swan/status/1907828338124796027?s=46

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B: Japan

• Japan Inc. vaccine failure
• USAID like grift scandal in Japan being ignored by the MSM?
• Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth calls a vital partner in the struggle with China, plans to ramp up military operations in the country. 
• Nikkei in correction territory, tariffs. 
• Price increases on 4000 items from April. Electricity and gas up. 
• Boots on the ground reporting–conveyor belt sushi up 3.5X in 20 years.  
• Gold tax treatment in Japan
• Boomer American arrested in Japan for carrying a gun
• Moumuri, job quitting service, sees double the business in April

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• Bit bonds 
• https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/bitcoin-enhanced-treasury-bonds-an-idea-whose-time-has-come

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B: Japan

• Metaplanet adds Eric Trump to board of directors. 
• Semi private rooms to be introduced to Shinkansen by 2026. 
• Number of people age 20 to 39 in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima fell by ~25% between 2010 and 2024.
• CGT on Bitcoin to be lowered to ~20%? (Boost from 02zx Ramen Outpost 101)
• Daily withdrawal limits to be set for ATMs/bank transfers to “protect seniors”? 
• Themeatguy data leak
• Foreigner card to be combined with MyNumber card in 2026. 

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• GameStop will bitcoin help them?
• https://x.com/gamestop/status/1904628096705454308?s=46
• GameStop plans to offer $1.3B in 0.00% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 in a private offering.

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B: Japan

• Trannies spotted in the wild
• Ishiba embroiled in some silly scandal giving out gift vouchers to young party members. 
• Japan’s labor ministry boasts about the growing average wage in Japan–a whopping 25k USD/ year. 
• Japan to place restrictions on foreigners buying farmland from April. 
• Pentagon removes iconic Iwo Jima flag raising photo due to concerns it violates Trump’s anti DEI EO. 
• Hong Kong Shitcoiners OSL, USDC major Circle come to Japan

B: Bitcoin  (~60 mins)

• Bitcoin financing 
• https://www.cantor.com/cantor-fitzgerald-partners-with-digital-asset-custodians-anchorage-digital-and-copper-co-to-support-bitcoin-financing-business/