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...

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...