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As a long-time analyst of corporate trends, Peter delivers an intimate look at the Asian business scene.

Five Scintilating Scenarios for the Year of the Snake

Snakes symbolise regeneration and transformation

By Peter Tasker | January 5, 2025
Articles Business Culture Fiction Finance Politics

The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Masa Son

Indian telecom billionaire Sunal Mittal declared that “the man has balls of steel”

By Peter Tasker | November 22, 2024
Business Finance Reviews

The Coming of Shibusawa: the Politics of Japan’s New Banknotes

So the switch from Fukuzawa to Shibusawa is intriguing and potentially significant. What kind of Japan will be ushered in by Eiichi Shibusawa?

By Peter Tasker | July 1, 2024
Business Culture

Chris Miller’s “Chip War”: the Geopolitics of High-tech

“Washington’s foreign policy strategists embraced complex semiconductor supply chains as a tool to bind Asia to an American-led world”

By Peter Tasker | July 29, 2023
Business Politics Reviews

Learning to Love Inflation: the Japanese Experiment

Higher immigration is a certainty, given that opinion surveys show a large majority of the public accepting the case.

By Peter Tasker | July 28, 2023
Business Finance

Buffett-san Validates the Abe Reforms

Could it be that Buffett sees a more cosmopolitan Japan filling a crucial new role?

By Peter Tasker | May 20, 2023
Articles Business Finance

How the Weak Yen will Re-energize Japan

Japanese products and services have become extraordinarily cheap relative to the foreign equivalents, as have wages, rents and asset prices.

By Peter Tasker | April 3, 2022
Business Finance

Five Shocking Scenarios for the Year of the Tiger

Remote conferences lack the one thing that makes conferences worthwhile: networking over drinks in the hotel bar.

By Peter Tasker | January 1, 2022
Articles Business Politics Reflections

Shibusawa: From Fiery Rebel to Venture Capital Pioneer

By the end of the 1970s, Shibusawa had comprehensively defeated Karl Marx.

By Peter Tasker | December 4, 2021
Business Culture

Dan Yergin’s “The New Map”: How Rising Asia Will Ensure the Future of Fossil Fuels

“If we stopped producing fossil fuels today, we would all die…We wouldn’t have food. We wouldn’t have transportation… We wouldn’t have clothes.”

By Peter Tasker | January 22, 2021
Articles Business

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