The Year of Scandal: How the Fate of Abe and Park Affect Regional Security
With her distrust of nuclear power and support for medical marijuana, Akie Abe constituted an “intra-family opposition party.”
The Brightening Message from Small Cap Japan
In the creative destruction that is supposed to characterize capitalism, destruction is always noisier and more eye-catching than creation
Assassin’s Creed: North Korea at the Brink
The lesson the North Koreans have learned is that bluster, brutality and blackmail make for a winning strategy.
North Korean Assassination: The Novel!
“Through the seething jungles of Mindanao, across the baking emptiness of Mongolia and into the Dear Leader’s personal pleasure dome.”
Trump and Abe on the Fairway to Heaven
Abe was treated to hugs, multiple dinner dates and a sleepover at Trump’s luxury resort in Florida. The round of golf the two men played there was highly symbolic,
Can Scandal Spur Change at Toshiba and Samsung?
He used the same hairbrush for 50 years and went to work by bus even while head of the “Keidanren” big business association
From Endo to Dylan: TV Ads Bridge the Cultural Divide
Ground-breaking film director Nagisa Oshima, peddled cockroach-repellent and air-freshener.
What Trump Means for Markets: The Great Reversal
Populism thrives under deflationary conditions, as in Japan and Germany in 1928-33, but populism in power often brings high inflation
Martin Scorsese’s Searing “Silence”
Scorsese’s favoured milieu is the “mean streets” of inner city America, where he grew up, with their violence, profanity and crime
The New Message from Pearl Harbour
It is the leaders and citizens of another Asian power that “should heed the lessons of Pearl Harbour.”