What the Nikkei-FT Deal Says about the World (and Japan)
What do Vice, the FT and the WSJ have that the Washington Post, Business Week and many other once iconic titles do not?
Eurogeddon – the Japanese Perspective
Yet successful conservative politicians are always empiricists, not idealists…
Twilight of the Technocrats
Even Iceland, this century’s poster-child for financial excess, is almost back to peak economic activity
This Year’s Model
“In theory there is no gap between practice and theory; in practice there is.”
Who’s Banking on China?
Japan now finds itself in a deeply uncomfortable position… As Hamlet might have put it, to join or not to join, that is the question.
What Can Abe Teach Europe?
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.
The Sumo Champ in the Bath
Japanese bureaucracies, like others elsewhere, react to the prospect of transparency like a vampire reacts to the coming of daylight.
The End of the Japanese Ice Age
Japan has become the region’s low cost producer in a range of industries, from shipbuilding to software engineering….
Piketty “Live in Japan”
Piketty’s tome was also the “least read” bestseller, with the average reader getting through just 2% of the text.
Asian Lessons from a Greek Tragedy
In terms of economic policy it is the populists that are pragmatic and the technocrats who inhabit cloud cuckoo land.