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?
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”
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.
Buffett-san Validates the Abe Reforms
Could it be that Buffett sees a more cosmopolitan Japan filling a crucial new role?
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.
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.
Shibusawa: From Fiery Rebel to Venture Capital Pioneer
By the end of the 1970s, Shibusawa had comprehensively defeated Karl Marx.
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.”
Anti-fragile Corporate Japan
The majority of the world’s oldest companies – 56% of those over 200 years old – are to be found in Japan.
Samsung’s Cosmic Self – How a Korean Company Beat the Japanese at Their Own Game
“F**k Steve. He’s dead and we were right. Samsung was right.”