Articles Culture Politics Japan’s Immigration Dilemma By Peter Tasker | June 11, 2015 | Comment (0) Share The role model is Yuichiro Miura, who reached the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 80
Articles Business Politics The Japanese Spring By Peter Tasker | April 18, 2015 | Comment (0) Share 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? By Peter Tasker | March 18, 2015 | Comment (0) Share 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 By Peter Tasker | December 16, 2014 | Comment (0) Share Asakusa, a downtown area fast becoming Tokyo’s new hipster central, is now a destination for foreign backpackers.
Articles Politics Abe Seals the Deal By Peter Tasker | December 15, 2014 | Comment (0) Share Companies will lobby for less restrictions on immigrants. All such changes will work to dilute the corporate monoculture.
Articles Reflections John Cleese on Abenomics By Peter Tasker | December 1, 2014 | Comment (2) Share “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 By Peter Tasker | November 19, 2014 | Comment (0) Share 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 By Peter Tasker | November 3, 2014 | Comment (0) Share 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 By Peter Tasker | September 2, 2014 | Comment (0) Share Mr. Abe’s achievements overshadow the efforts of his predecessors, including the globally celebrated Junichiro Koizumi
Finance Reflections Is Abenomics Working Too Well? By Peter Tasker | April 24, 2014 | Comment (1) Share 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.