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...

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...