By Ichiro Suzuki According to the Bank of Japan, the Japanese yen is most undervalued against the U.S. dollar since 1973, in terms of...

By Ichiro Suzuki In the October general election, stagnation of per capita income in Japan became one of the issues at long last. Over...

By Ichiro Suzuki Simon Kuznets, the 1971 winner of Nobel prize in economics once said “There are four kinds of countries: developed...

By Ichiro Suzuki In the October 29th general election, Japanese voters brought back the ruling coalition to govern the country...

By Ichiro Suzuki This is what has been expected for a very long time. Too much debt in the overextended real estate sector would...

By Ichiro Suzuki In recent years, trade and current accounts have become poor indicators of a country’s economic success, as far as...

By Ichiro Suzuki In the summer of 2007, a financial sector analyst from Shanghai proudly told me “Seven out of the ten largest banks on...

By Ichiro Suzuki On September 3, Yoshihide Suga, Prime Minister of Japan has announced that he is not running for the upcoming...

By Ichiro Suzuki Yasushi Mieno was a career central banker who served as governor of the Bank of Japan, for five years beginning...

By Ichiro Suzuki The weekend of August 13-15 has marked the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s announcement that sent...

By Ichiro Suzuki China’s President Xi Jinping is clueless, as far as the financial markets’ workings are concerned. The tyrant thinks...

By Ichiro Suzuki According to the Nikkei, Japan’s business daily, the iPhone Pro Max (512 gigabytes) costs 45% of average monthly...