Yuriko Koike

Culture Reflections

Virus Diary: Albert’s Blues

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One thing is for sure – you don’t want to piss him off.

Articles Reflections

Cherry Blossom Viewing in the Year of the Virus

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In times of peril, the nation-state is all you’ve got.

Articles Politics

Abe’s Next Move: Stoking a Mini-Boom

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A glance at the Japanese banking system – and indeed at any bank branch, with its ranks of paper-shufflers – shows how much room there is for improvement.

Articles Politics

Electoral Affinities: How Abe Could Win by Losing

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Abe has got himself into a pickle by agreeing to a deeply unpopular hike in the consumption tax

Articles Politics

Hardier than the Male: Women Leaders Subvert the Stereotypes

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In a darkly sarcastic poem, Rudyard Kipling claimed that ”the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”