By Ichiro Suzuki The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has recently has announced Ms. Junko Nakagawa enters its policy board as of July 1, if confirmed...

By Ichiro Suzuki It is widely expected that China overtakes the United States as the largest economy at some point in the 2030s. Before...

By Ichiro Suzuki The United Kingdom has expressed an interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a comprehensive trade...

By Ichiro Suzuki This is so classic. This is about why Japan has been falling behind over the last 30 years failing to keep up with the...

If you have followed news about China, the name Confucius Institute is probably no stranger to you. The fact is, the Confucius...

By Ichiro Suzuki China’s President Xi Jinping is becoming muscular every year since he rose to power in 2012, tightening his grip on...

Few perhaps are fully aware of the extent of Chinese influence operations in America, this video will help inform you of such important...

By Ichiro Suzuki On January 8, a South Korean court ordered the Japanese government to pay damages to a group of former "comfort...

By Ichiro Suzuki On September 16, 2020, Yoshihide Suga, 72, became Prime Minister of Japan, after 7 years and 9 months of Shinzo Abe at...

By Ichiro Suzuki It was totally unheralded and made only small headlines. On January 8, the MSCI Emerging Market Index rose to a fresh...

By Ichiro Suzuki The Tokyo Stock Exchange closed 2020 with its Nikkei index at 27,444, the highest since it peaked at the end of 1989 at...

In the West, voting is a civic duty. But Chinese people are technically “residents,” not “citizens” - we don’t have the rights that...

By Ichiro Suzuki One of the developments to be remembered in the 2020 equity markets is the rise of electric vehicle makers. Tesla took...

By Ichiro Suzuki It has been long expected that China would shift the gear of its economic growth to be less export-dependent and be...

By Ichiro Suzuki The Nikkei, Japan’e business daily, reports that a steadily growing number of Japanese scholars (presumably scientists)...

By Ichiro Suzuki Sony’s shares are rising lately. It is the highest since the height of the tech bubble in early 2000. The company has...

By Ichiro Suzuki On November 3, only two days before what was set to be the biggest IPO in history, China suspended the $37 billion...

By Ichiro Suzuki Japan Airlines (JAL) is in trouble. Of course it is. Which carrier on earth could possibly be not in trouble in this...

By Ichiro Suzuki In the second decade of the 21st century, an unconventional monetary policy in the name of QE ruled the financial...

By Ichiro Suzuki  The Financial Times reports that total market capitalization of Chinese equity markets, Shanghai and Shenzhen, has...