I also haven't heard any new about it, if it is huge supposed to be a lot of people talking about it, but if it is really happened it will be great for bitcoin, more people will know bitcoin and it will caused more people to join and the price will go up, the most important now is the bitcoin popularity, if we can add the popularity then bitcoin will have a great future, and I so overwhelmed seeing Japan really take commitment about bitcoin, so many sectors started to implemented bitcoin,soon it will be a heaven for bitcoin users
If you didn't hear about it you are not that updated.
In Twitter, Reddit, in Bitcoin digital newspaper (Bitcoin telegraph etc...), even in regular media (CNBC) they talked about this, maybe not a lot, but all talked at least once about it.
The news is quite huge, but Japanese love moving under the radar if possible. So I didnt expect they emphasizing the news.
The creation of new exchange platforms it is a normal conseguence of Bitcoin legalization as a currency in Japan.
In Japan and Korea they pays Bitcoin 20% higher than us, maybe because the understood better than us, how huge this is.
Anyway Japanese "normal" people are smart investors, smarter than the average American or even European so many Japanese sometimes could even short Bitcoin.
I mean many Japanese investing in Bitcoin doesnt mean Bitcoin always growing.
And today, in perfect "sell the news" style, price is going down...