Articles Culture Reflections The Seagull Laughs By Peter Tasker | March 26, 2015 | Comment (0) Share The “Queen of the Japanese Underground” stuck to her unique personal style – long black dress, dark glasses, cloud of cigarette smoke
Articles Culture Reflections Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child By Peter Tasker | March 18, 2015 | Comment (0) Share By then she had jettisoned her hippy chanteuse persona and joined Blues Creation, featuring Japan’s answer to Jeff Beck, Kazuo Takeda on guitar.
Finance Politics What Can Abe Teach Europe? By Peter Tasker | March 18, 2015 | Comment (0) Share This goes a long way to explaining the remarkable fall in the suicide rate over the past several years, which has reversed nearly all of the sharp increase of the late 1990s.
Articles Finance The Sumo Champ in the Bath By Peter Tasker | March 12, 2015 | Comment (0) Share Japanese bureaucracies, like others elsewhere, react to the prospect of transparency like a vampire reacts to the coming of daylight.
Articles Business Finance The End of the Japanese Ice Age By Peter Tasker | March 6, 2015 | Comment (0) Share Japan has become the region’s low cost producer in a range of industries, from shipbuilding to software engineering….