3 days ago5 minNTT and Japan’s corporate governance By Ichiro Suzuki Nippon Telephone & Telegram (NTT) has recently announced its intention to buy all the shares of NTT Mobile Communicati...
3 days ago4 minRescuing NissanBy Ichiro Suzuki Before the coronavirus brought down the global economy, Nissan was already in a deep trouble. Ousting of CEO Carlos Gho...
Oct 95 minTriffin’s Dilemma and the Dollar By Ichiro Suzuki Capital is flowing out of China slowly in recent years or in part due to the new trend of de-globalization or stalling ...
Oct 36 minThe Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)By Ichiro Suzuki When Xi Jinping floated the idea of creating the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) to be based in Beijing, t...
Sep 234 minAlibaba, Amazon and Total Addressable Market (TAM)By Ichiro Suzuki Since its frenzied September 2014 debut in the NYSE, Alibaba has been doing very well, tripling its shares in just six...
Sep 163 minLooking Back on AbenomicsBy Ichiro Suzuki In December, 2012 Shinzo Abe came back to the office of prime minister after five years, with a bold plan to revitalize...
Sep 15 minShinzo Abe’s LegacyBy Ichiro Suzuki On August 28, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister since December 2012, has announced that he is stepping down for health ...
Aug 295 minThe 2020 Tech Boom and AsiaBy Ichiro Suzuki This is called “the death of value investing”. Tech stocks keep rising leaving the rest of the market behind, leaving t...
Aug 194 minAftermath of U.S. Debt DowngradingBy Ichiro Suzuki On August 5, 2011, Standard & Poors downgraded its credit rating on U.S. Treasury securities to AA+ with a negative wa...
Aug 183 minIndia’s Import Substitution By Ichiro Suzuki In an attempt to promote local manufacturing industries, the Indian government has recently announced restrictions on c...
Aug 86 minThe End of the East Asian Growth ModelBy Ichiro Suzuki In the latter half of the 2010s, speculations grew on successor to China as the world’s workshop due to rising wages in...
Jul 314 minTokyo as Asia’s financial hubBy Ichiro Suzuki On July 1, the People’s Republic of China has imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong, in order to bring the t...
Jul 244 minSino-Australian RelationsBy Ichiro Suzuki Australia has been going through difficult times with China in recent years. The bilateral relationship saw its peak i...
Jul 153 minShinzo Abe’s Third ArrowBy Ichiro Suzuki Shinzo Abe came back to power at the end of 2012, after a 5 year hiatus that followed an unsuccessful 12 months stint...
Jul 74 minImran Khan’s Rage Against Beijing By Ichiro Suzuki Pakistan was a major non-NATO U.S. ally until the early years of the 21st century. In 2002 the United States allowed...
Jul 23 minThe Yale - NUS College By Ichiro Suzuki Since the beginning of the 21st century, there was a great boom for world-famous U.S. universities to have a new camp...
Jun 234 minSouth Africa-Free Investing By Ichiro Suzuki In the 1980s, when the international community was enraged at the inhumane minority regime that ruled the Republic of ...
Jun 235 minA Tale of Three BubblesBy Ichiro Suzuki The Nasdaq composite index has closed above 10,000 on June 10. The closing level of 10,020 was exactly twice as high as...
Jun 124 minHow Coronavirus Has Revealed Japan’s Tech Backwardness By Ichiro Suzuki That Japan is leading the world in cutting edge technology has been an illusion that continues to persist for some time...
Jun 35 minIs This Really Asia’s Century?By Ichiro Suzuki The 21st century belongs to Asia! This appears to be a consensus around the world, especially widely held in the invest...
