Sayonara, Tourist-san
His approval rating of 60% makes him the most popular leader in the G8, leaving aside Vladimir Putin.
Tokyo’s New Guv’nor
Ishihara’s legacy includes exterminating thirty thousand crows and ordering the removal of the Tsukiji fish-market, much loved by tourists…
Abe Road 2014
The third arrow struck a chord because it told people what they wanted to hear – that government can push a button and remake reality.
Where’s Voldemort?
Every time the focus is on the events of seventy and eighty years ago, it means a loss for Japan and a win for China
Higher Wages are Coming to Japan
British prime ministers would invite union leaders and heads of industry to Number 10 Downing Street in order to thrash out wage deals over beer and sandwiches
Shinzo Abe’s Challenge to China
A misjudgement by either side could set off a violent chain-reaction embroiling many other powers, Sarajevo 1914-style
Abenomics: the Perils of Success
This is as difficult as getting pandas to mate. The mood has to be exactly right. Even if all goes well, it’s going to take a long, long time.
Austin Powers on Abenomics
Are choices of whether to have children or to take your own life moulded by “ki” too? If so, the conditions were ripe for change.
Hegel on Abenomics
“It’s essential to raise taxes,” he says, cradling a well-aged Islay malt.
Morrissey on Abenomics
Yet surely it is much too early for the soil to be falling over the head of Abenomics.