Culture Reflections Can Japan Survive Mass Tourism? By Peter Tasker | April 14, 2016 | Comment (0) Share How will people react when they find their favourite sushi place filled with foreigners squirting ketchup on the maguro?
Articles Finance Abe’s Next Move: Doubling Down on Growth By Peter Tasker | March 16, 2016 | Comment (1) Share The yen has acted as a financial version of the “wind of the gods” – the fortuitous typhoon that destroyed the fleet of Kublai Khan
Articles Culture Politics The Wave of the Future: Japan’s “Happy” Chinese New Year By Peter Tasker | February 12, 2015 | Comment (0) Share 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
Articles Business The Last Virgin Flies Out Of Tokyo By Peter Tasker | October 2, 2014 | Comment (0) Share Don’t tell me defaulting, depopulating Detroit is more “globally critical” than Tokyo, comfortably the largest city in the world by economic output.