Abe Gambles on Growth
In this age of womenomics and passive “herbivore” males, is there any room for the strong silent type prepared to risk everything?
When Abe Met Xi: East Asia’s New Normal
They contribute to the profits of high-end stores in the Ginza, gadget shops in Akihabara and even the Yoshiwara, Tokyo’s fabled red-light district
Kuroda Unchained
The Topix Index is at its cheapest since Ali decked Foreman on a sticky October night in Zaire all those years ago.
High Noon for Haruhiko Kuroda
Central bankers need the intellectual courage to face down hostile forces, just as Gary Cooper’s sheriff took on the gunslingers in Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 film.
We Are All Japanese Now
Google has a market capitalization of $380 billion and employs 40,000 people. Toyota is worth $32 billion and employs 340,000.
The Last Virgin Flies Out Of Tokyo
Don’t tell me defaulting, depopulating Detroit is more “globally critical” than Tokyo, comfortably the largest city in the world by economic output.
The World is not Flat
Even in a wealthy G8 country the primitive urges of the limbic brain are a match for cold economic calculations
Abe Road is the only path for Japan
Mr. Abe’s achievements overshadow the efforts of his predecessors, including the globally celebrated Junichiro Koizumi
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Yoshida’s fibs were meat and drink to foreign journalists eager to emphasize the uniqueness of Japan’s depravity….
Japan’s Scottish Option
Was there a racist assumption that Japan was inherently more aggressive than the countries that produced the Nazis and Mussolini? Or was it a question of geopolitical strategy?