Abenomics

Articles Culture Politics

Japan’s Immigration Dilemma

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The role model is Yuichiro Miura, who reached the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 80

Articles Business Politics

The Japanese Spring

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Most important of all for psychological well-being and social tranquility, the Japanese economy is running at full employment.

Finance Politics

What Can Abe Teach Europe?

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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.

Articles Business Finance

Prepare for the Coming Japanese Boom

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Asakusa, a downtown area fast becoming Tokyo’s new hipster central, is now a destination for foreign backpackers.

Articles Politics

Abe Seals the Deal

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Companies will lobby for less restrictions on immigrants. All such changes will work to dilute the corporate monoculture.

Articles Reflections

John Cleese on Abenomics

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“So apart from achieving full employment and doubling stock prices in two years, what has Abenomics done for us? Absolutely nothing!”

Articles Finance Politics

Abe Gambles on Growth

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In this age of womenomics and passive “herbivore” males, is there any room for the strong silent type prepared to risk everything?

Articles Finance

Kuroda Unchained

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The Topix Index is at its cheapest since Ali decked Foreman on a sticky October night in Zaire all those years ago.

Articles Business Finance

Abe Road is the only path for Japan

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Mr. Abe’s achievements overshadow the efforts of his predecessors, including the globally celebrated Junichiro Koizumi

Finance Reflections

Is Abenomics Working Too Well?

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In the battle for the Economics Premier League, Monetarist United has pulled well ahead of big-spending Keynes City and the hard men of Vienna F.C.