Abe Seals the Deal
Companies will lobby for less restrictions on immigrants. All such changes will work to dilute the corporate monoculture.
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
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
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?
The Dark Side of Womenomics
The genetic upper class would be tall, intelligent and creative, while the underclass would consist of tubby, dim-witted goblins.
Abe’s Moment of Truth
If Mr. Abe offered citizens a say in their own governance, it would be the first time since Japan’s mythical first emperor came ashore in 660 B.C.
Whatever Happened to the Beijing Consensus?
Countries do not always act in their own best interests, as historian Barbara Tuchman established in “The March of Folly”
One Cheer For Thai Democracy
This is Thailand’s umpteenth coup in the modern period so the generals know the routine well by now.
Abe Offers Japanese Lessons for Europe
A job for anybody who wants one – a phenomenon which must seem like a distant dream to millions of unemployed youngsters in the Eurozone.