Culture Reflections Virus Diary: Albert’s Blues By Peter Tasker | April 29, 2020 | Comment (1) Share One thing is for sure – you don’t want to piss him off.
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Articles Politics Abe’s Next Move: Stoking a Mini-Boom By Peter Tasker | October 23, 2017 | Comment (1) Share 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 By Peter Tasker | September 28, 2017 | Comment (0) Share 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 By Peter Tasker | August 7, 2016 | Comment (0) Share In a darkly sarcastic poem, Rudyard Kipling claimed that ”the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”