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ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us, japan. we'll finally begin easing kobe to travel entry restrictions friday for $106.00 countries. although it remains closed to tourists. tokyo has shut its borders since the early days of the pandemic. back in 2020, you may recall that it even hosted the olympics without any foreign visitors, save those athletes and coaches participating in competition. now some business and student travelers can come for more. we have zachary lee out of our east asia bureau. zach bring us up to speed. what has japan's experience been like with cove at the last 2 years? yes, melissa. japan has been successful in keeping the local coven infection res low in

the past 2 years, compared to western countries. we've been doing the tokyo olympics last summer, infection number only collette for some time. last february, however, japan faced the biggest wave of covey 19 cases caused by the army con variant by the writ of infection and death. i'm much lower than most of countries in the ward theater shows later this tow in japan is 20462 and accumulate teeth. number of covey cases exist. point 8000000 is unclear what a color for japan starts is in fighting the virus most as bus predict. the public's embrace of public health conditions with high vaccination rates, nearly 80 percent of the population has received at least 2 shots. molding 40 percent have 3. now this doesn't appear to be a full opening, for example, japan is not yet welcoming tourists. why is that true,

while most of the country, so coast regions, i re open the borders to tourist. japan continues to turn them away and is no rush into any changes. it's actually because japan is politicians and the public have men tend to more casual approach and with an important poly mentor election coming up in july, japan, political leadership is unlikely to do any thing, let me endanger their parties. chances of winning comfortable majority, which is of course risk in a rise in current various cases by re opening the country to to reason. and has this closure of its borders had much of an impact on japan's economy. the last 2 years. you talk about the upcoming politics for sure. japan span international tourist has caused some local economies that have come to rely on guests from for re countries. for example, sky resort spies, the spot towns or tropical islands fall from the beaten path have opened in sylph

in dire financial straits, shutting down to country theresa industrial likely cost japan, at least 90000000000 years dollar in 2020 a loan. this is according to a study by a professor in confined university. wow. well, that really thank you so much for joining us. tie one's longest running, traditional puppet television show is creating non fungible tokens are and f t's to help bring their art form to new audiences and hopefully to make money. and if t's are a certificate of ownership in the digital world, we'll get more into that in a moment. but for now, check out the puppets going digital. bringing the drama, this puppet vanquishes those in fantasy realms. now its creators wanted to conquer a whole new universe. the n f t marketplace. that ad they the sort of an

imagination everyone nowadays has for the online world is developing so fast that we're almost unable to grasp it. and so we've decided that instead of sitting by the sidelines, we had best approaches to jump straight in a digital future for an art form with deep roots in tie ones past a centuries old tradition that 1st arose on the streets. now each production is a sophisticated enterprise, the studio hopes and f t versions of their puppets. we'll draw in new foreign fans . wow, now we'll make sure that we're already a stand out on this platform where we can sell more than 30000 n. f t's in a matter of seconds means that there's real potential to put. it helps us expand internationally your needle and expanding profits and a t sales have brought in 1000000 euros. the puberty production house has thousands of characters and complex story lines amped up with martial arts battles. similar

the n f t brand manager says to marble, comic films, all people that she's are the oh is the same as marvel and that it's story. structures are very complete. the big one, for example. they have a lot of heroes. on top of that, the western market actually really like our marshall archie road. really. those will come through and so on. douglas, it's through health insurance. hopes are high that an a t's will be a smash hit. and fans will want to own one of their own to tell us more about nf t's we have d, w 's resident and f t and crypto currency expert michelle stockman in the studio. michelle, we just explained a little bit just now what an f t r, but can you tell us a bit more and how it's connected to crypto currencies? normally you would by and and of t with crypto currency. so let's say one of our viewers wants to go by an,

an a t 1st. you would go and take your fia currency, whether it's dollars or euros, or repeat, and go to a crypto currency exchange and convert it into crypto currency that you would put in your digital wallet. then you would go to an, an f t market place that's online. something like open sea is a really popular one. you'd connect your wallet into there, and then you would be able to browse through all the different collections and select the and if you want and bid on it. now anyone in the world can still see that on a t. they could even take a screenshot of it, make a print out, put it on their wall, they could tweet it out and say this is mine, but in theory, you are the one true owner of it because you have a digital certificate that's stored on block chain which is that public digitalized ledger that exists on a network of decentralized computers around the world. and any changes to it can be easily detected. it sounds like a lot of steps. so we just saw this company in taiwan, so are planning to so and if tease and a taiwan is

a very high tech place of the world's most advanced semiconductors are manufactured . they're tell us a little bit about the seen. well, the global craze around entities really took off last year and 2021. and taiwan. yes is among the 1st adopters. so you've got mainstream celebrities like pop star, j chow, who have a really great brand. and they have another revenue stream. now he has endorsed something called a fam to bear, and this and t dethroned what used to be the most popular one. forget ape club. oh yeah. i know that one. yeah. i'm doing incredible trade, but also taiwan is among the areas that is trying to make it more user friendly. as we said, there's a lot of steps to be able to purchase an entity tie one, yahoo is launching its own an a t store so that people can just simply pay with a credit card for an end of t really reducing the barriers to a mass audience, that would definitely be the option i go for. okay, so beyond taiwan, what else are we seeing in asia?

well, if you talk to a crypto currency enthusiasts, they're going to say the surge is going to be this year. everybody is going to be going for entities, but you know, it's in the interest of crypto enthusiasts to say that it's really hard to pinpoint the actual data. countries aren't really tracking that at this point. but there are a couple indicators we can look at that do suggest that there is a rise in interest in entities arise an ownership, for example. there's a firm called chain analysis. they do block chain analytics and they looked at the web traffic related to entities. first in all of asia compared to north america and europe combined, and they found that that traffic was pretty equal, and yet asia has about 4 times the population, right? so there's a potential for more consumers. now, this is a really new thing. i know a lot of governments are kind of scratching their heads, trying to figure out crypto currencies and how much they should regulate it. is that having an impact on and if tease and a t's right now are not really so much on government's radars. there, it's kind of

a great area. the exception in asia is thailand. their band. china has band the trading and mining of crypto currency, but has kind of decide it's going to be tolerant around and of t's, but has raised the alarm. it's concerned about the potential for scams and other criminal activity around the crypto sphere and big companies, big tech companies like ali baba and 10 cent have taken their own rules. so they have told customers, if we're seeing something like programs that go in and scoop a whole lot of and of tease right when they're released or they detect money laundering, or other fraud in the activities, they're gonna shut those accounts down. but governments across the world are weary, you know, entities are away for creators to make profits. there's opportunity here, but there's also an opportunity to be victimized people who might not understand the rules around out of tease. they might not understand the exchange rates. it's a really valuable market, so you might have something that's worth something one day, the market crashes,

you plummet the brave new world. this is so interesting. michelle stockman, thank you so much. you're welcome. northern india is in the grip of a heat wave with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees celsius. he w delhi team went out to see how people are coping. the heat in delhi is blistering . the fans full force beating down. people are doing what they can to find, just a bit of shade as the heat makes everybody lethargic. and those who can afford it, try to stay in the air condition rooms. so just trying to stay indoors as much as possible with that he's, he's on an old leaving, get to soon this year as well. i, we don't get it. i'm just coming from a coffee. so i still feel a little cool, but it is hot, but got to me her for india, rickshaw drivers and daily village liberals that has little respite from the scorching temperatures. did the i'm look what we're poor people, whether it's hot or cold, we have to work all year modem or not. i'm going over there. this is, is

a lover. i repair shoes and this he's, i used the souls to find myself in the city and walk around the city or then parts provide free water. these traditional must cause keep the water chilled, even stray dogs come to relish the cool air around them. and the ever rising heat of the afternoon dehydrated residents don't to ice cubes and traditional ice balls or go long to keep calling the spiced with a touch of rose water or solid trees. headaches and some strokes are common unless people drink enough. it's so hot that regular water isn't enough. and so people look for coconut water sold like b. now it isn't surprising for india to be this hot in summer, especially a monthly june when temperature speak. but this is just the 4th week of april the beginning of summer, and it is already $41.00 degrees celsius. in fact,

india has broken its own record. march was hotter than it has been in over a decade. fine to say climate change is making the situation worse. so more heat weights are likely visio the next and probably the next. that's it for friday, have a good weekend. we'll see on monday. ah. to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspective brushes pull back north of kia has brought relief, but horror as indications of a civilian bath. the car come to light. will the apparent war crimes convinced germany to embargo russian fossil fuels find out on to the to the point dw, if you ever have to cover up a murder,

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