Published in Japan Forward May 24 2025 It really is the end of an era. Warren Buffett, the greatest investor of modern times, is to retire at the age of 94. While maintaining his optimism about America, he has not made any significant new investments in his home market for some years. Even the sharp … Warren Buffett’s Japanese Love Call
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So the switch from Fukuzawa to Shibusawa is intriguing and potentially significant. What kind of Japan will be ushered in by Eiichi Shibusawa?
“Washington’s foreign policy strategists embraced complex semiconductor supply chains as a tool to bind Asia to an American-led world”
Higher immigration is a certainty, given that opinion surveys show a large majority of the public accepting the case.
Could it be that Buffett sees a more cosmopolitan Japan filling a crucial new role?
Japanese products and services have become extraordinarily cheap relative to the foreign equivalents, as have wages, rents and asset prices.
Remote conferences lack the one thing that makes conferences worthwhile: networking over drinks in the hotel bar.
By the end of the 1970s, Shibusawa had comprehensively defeated Karl Marx.