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August 14, 2026
 

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PREDICTION MARKETS

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposes setting moral boundaries for some prediction markets ¡ª which allow users to place ?yes/no wagers ?on such things as sports, elections, economic outcomes and Wall ?Street indices, among other events.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 28, 2026
Trump administration¡¯s proposed prediction market rule faces public pushback
Opponents argue that sports wagering on prediction markets amounts to illegal gambling that should be under the control of local authorities.
Apps like Miraima allow users to wager on real-world events and win points that can be converted into monetary rewards such as gift cards.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Jun 29, 2026
Prediction markets emerge in Japan, with shopping vouchers
New homegrown startups are finding ways to skirt regulations.
Traffic moves past the Iranian national flag displayed on a building at Enghelab square in Tehran on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 16, 2026
Polymarket traders clash over $345 million Iran peace market
Bets on a peace deal are in limbo because it was not clear if the announcement was enough to meet the conditions written into Polymarket¡¯s contracts.
Polymarket, the global prediction market platform based in New York, sees Japan as a large untapped business opportunity.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 22, 2026
Polymarket is said to seek Japan market approval in global push
Polymarket enables users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events, such as elections, using cryptocurrencies.
Prediction markets are touted on social media as a lucrative side hustle, but in reality, most traders are losing money.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 28, 2026
Most prediction market traders are losing money while bots rack up gains
Among the winners, a majority of the profits were raked in by a tiny slice of what look to be automated bots.
Captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is escorted at Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York City on Jan. 5.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 24, 2026
U.S. soldier charged with using classified info to bet on Maduro¡¯s capture
Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a 38-year-old special forces soldier, allegedly made more than $400,000 trading on Polymarket¡¯s prediction market.
An electronic sphere displays wagers at a Polymarket pop-up bar in Washington on March 20.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 30, 2026
Event wagers face $143 million insider problem as war bets boom
A flurry of well-timed trades tied to U.S. decisions on Iran has renewed scrutiny of prediction markets.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

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