First Love: The Hell Version
“You have a wife, don’t you?” “Yes, she’s as cold as ice. When she’s asleep, I often dream of setting her on fire.”
Value Investment and Populism
Super-low interest rates and tame inflationary expectations would be unlikely to survive the elevation to prime minister of Jeremy Corbyn…
Sayonara to Tsukiji: Japan’s Fish Business Moves On
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
The Sound of the Waves: Carmen Maki Does Terayama
She is still going strong. The flame still burns.
The Summertime Blues: Can Tokyo Find a Cure by 2020?
Carousing in Roppongi or Ginza would not be the same in daylight.
Shinzo Abe: Un Puissant Antidote Au Populisme
You only get populism when liberalism has failed. That primarily means economic failure, but there are cultural and social fissures that matter too.
Secrets of the Abe Ascendancy
Prime Ministers came and went with such frequency that they were likened to karaoke singers taking turns at the microphone.
Sunset on the Lake of Lion’s Tears: Terayama and Shinoda in the Early 60s Part 2
All is resolved somehow and the goat goes back to the wide open pastures of Hokkaido.
How the Lehman Shock Helped Revive Japan
Paul Krugman declared “Japan used to be a cautionary tale, but the rest of us have messed up so badly that it almost looks like a role model”
Hail the Hated Heroes of Sport!
They are different from the rest of us, not just in skill, but in self-confidence, single-mindedness and the ability to handle pressure.