Rise of Bangladesh
Ichiro Suzuki It is widely expected that India overtakes China as the most populous country on earth, half way through 2023, and it...
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- Apr 28
- 4 min
Japan Exchange’s Wrath
Ichiro Suzuki Japan Exchange Group (JPX), the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s parent, has long been unhappy with low value assigned to Japanese...
- Apr 26
- 11 min
Global South Debt and Chinese Banks
Ichiro Suzuki This is not a new news or revelation, and has been already well documented. The developing world, or the Global South...
- Apr 7
- 5 min
The Folly of Coddling Shareholders
Ichiro Suzuki Shareholders are God in the 21st century capitalism. Management of Corporate Japan began to be told at the turn of the...
- Mar 29
- 3 min
Digital Deficits
Ichiro Suzuki For January 2023, Japan’s current account registered deficits of ¥1,976 billion, up from ¥1,396 billion twelve months...
- Mar 19
- 4 min
Anti-Declining Birthrate Policy of Another Dimension
Ichiro Suzuki In 2022, 811,604 babies were born in Japan whose population is approximately120 million. This was 29,231 fewer than in...
- Mar 8
- 4 min
Spring Wage Offensive 2023
Ichiro Suzuki Spring is the season for Japan’s labor unions. They negotiate their members’ wages for a new fiscal year that begins on...
- Feb 27
- 4 min
The Bank of Japan’s Next Governor
Ichiro Suzuki Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has asked Professor Kazuo Ueda to take over a position that will be vacated by departing Bank ...
- Feb 17
- 4 min
Retained Earnings Tax
Ichiro Suzuki From time to time in recent years, Japan’s opposition politicians have called for a new tax. It is one on retained...
- Feb 7
- 5 min
Looking Back on the Bank of Japan’s Extraordinary Monetary Policy
Ichiro Suzuki This spring marks the end of Haruhiko Kuroda’s ten-year governorship at the Bank of Japan. (He has served two...
- Jan 29
- 3 min
What’s Behind the United States’ Outsized Presence in Global Equity?
Ichiro Suzuki Former Morgan Stanley emerging market chief Ruchir Sharma ran an article on The Financial Times at the beginning of this...
- Jan 17
- 4 min
The Covid Death Toll Myth in China
Peter Zhang George Bernard Shaw once said, “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” He wasn’t exaggerating a bit. The swift...
- Jan 17
- 4 min
A Tale of Two Endings
Ichiro Suzuki Since the final weeks of 2022, the world has witnessed a flurry of reversal of policies that had been enforced on China...
- Jan 11
- 4 min
Japan’s Long Bear Market
Ichiro Suzuki Japan’s Nikkei Index closed 2022 at 26,094, down from 28,791 a year earlier amid a global rout in the stock markets....
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
General Electric
Ichiro Suzuki General Electric is a company that Thomas Edison founded in the late 19th century. It was natural progression that...
- Dec 16, 2022
- 4 min
India’s Rise
Ichiro Suzuki India is on the rise. It is expected to overtake China as the most populous country as soon as in 2023. This takes place...
- Dec 12, 2022
- 5 min
Soccer in China
Ichiro Suzuki China is missing in Qatar. For the fifth time in a row, Chinese men, ranked 79th in the world at present, are not in the...
- Nov 23, 2022
- 4 min
Toyota Motor
Ichiro Suzuki Toyota Motor Corporation is thriving. For the fiscal year through March 2022, Toyota’s consolidated earnings jumped 36%...
- Nov 15, 2022
- 4 min
Germany AG
Ichiro Suzuki In the first week of November, German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz visited Beijing to meet President Xi Jinping, who just won...
- Nov 8, 2022
- 5 min
Curse of Life Time Employment
Ichiro Suzuki The U.S. dollar is roaring on the Federal Reserve Bank’s determination to get the surging inflation under control. On...
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