FIFA Should Be More Like the ADB
The story started with a swoop worthy of Eliot Ness, the heroic investigator who took down Al Capone.
Abe and the Historians
Koizumi enacted a Japanese equivalent of the “Willy Brandt moment” at the Marco Polo bridge
Will Japan Become the Britain of Asia?
76% of Japanese and 66% of Americans believe that Japan does not need to apologize any further for its actions.
The Japanese Spring
Most important of all for psychological well-being and social tranquility, the Japanese economy is running at full employment.
Get Ready for the Asian History Games
British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm riposted “We cannot invent our facts. Either Elvis Presley is dead or he isn’t.”
Who’s Banking on China?
Japan now finds itself in a deeply uncomfortable position… As Hamlet might have put it, to join or not to join, that is the question.
What Can Abe Teach Europe?
This goes a long way to explaining the remarkable fall in the suicide rate over the past several years, which has reversed nearly all of the sharp increase of the late 1990s.
The Wave of the Future: Japan’s “Happy” Chinese New Year
Until recently in Japanese eyes a typical foreigner meant a white Westerner. Now the foreigners that ordinary Japanese meet in the flesh are likely to be fellow Asians
Piketty “Live in Japan”
Piketty’s tome was also the “least read” bestseller, with the average reader getting through just 2% of the text.
Asian Lessons from a Greek Tragedy
In terms of economic policy it is the populists that are pragmatic and the technocrats who inhabit cloud cuckoo land.