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...

By Ichiro Suzuki Working for the government has long been highly prestigious among able young men and women for decades. It has been...

By Ichiro Suzuki In early June, two months into Japan’s baseball season, Justin Smoak, first baseman for the Yomiuri Giants, had...

By Ichiro Suzuki For Corporate Japan, the final week of June is a time for public corporations’ annual general shareholder meetings....

By Ichiro Suzuki Covid-19 is widening the gap between the two worlds of developed and developing, reversing a move toward convergence...

By Ichiro Suzuki After a much hyped run since the outbreak of the pandemic in early 2000, the financial markets are restoring some...

By Ichiro Suzuki Stubborn unwillingness to accept slightest risks of any kind is one thing that characterizes the Japanese society since...

By Ichiro Suzuki In the summer of 1988, in the middle of the infamous Japan Bubble, what was originally thought as an obscure...

By Ichiro Suzuki Per capita GDP for Japanese has been stagnant for over a generation. The latest statistics by the IMF ranks Japan...

By Ichiro Suzuki  On April 7, British private equity fund CVC has made a $20 billion buyout offer to Toshiba Corp, Japan’s troubled...

By Ichiro Suzuki As the beginning of a new fiscal (and academic) year in Japan, April is a month when labor unions negotiate wages and...

By Ichiro Suzuki The U.S. economy is rebounding fiercely from what could have been the deepest recession since the Depression. Goldman...