I do not know anything about bankruptcy laws in Japan. As I expected, this was the lead story on NHK news, with Mark Karpeles bowing. He seemed to smirking too, oddly enough. His Japanese is not as good as I thought, but I guess he is stressed.
Here is Reuters' take on the story: Feb 28 (Reuters) - Close to half a billion dollars worth of the bitcoin virtual currency has gone missing from an exchange in Tokyo - in what is either the bank heist of the century or a sloppy glitch, or a combination of the two. Mark Karpeles, the 28-year-old French CEO of Mt. Gox, which once handled around 80 percent of the world's bitcoin trades, filed for bankruptcy at a Tokyo District Court late on Friday. His lawyer said that nearly all the bitcoins in the exchange's possession - 850,000 of them - were missing. Karpeles blamed hackers. . . .
