Prime Minister Kishida’s Wealth
By Ichiro Suzuki Following a smashing victory in the later October election, Prime Minister Kishida formed a new cabinet. Shortly...
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- Feb 1, 2021
- 1 min
The Story of Chinese Characters
Do you know that the Chinese language is the only surviving logogram language in the world? Yet, it is now distorted beyond recognition...
- Dec 8, 2020
- 4 min
Brain Drain
By Ichiro Suzuki The Nikkei, Japan’e business daily, reports that a steadily growing number of Japanese scholars (presumably scientists)...
- Jan 21, 2020
- 5 min
China Scholars Need to Break Free of Beijing
By Peter Zhang A new report should spark self-examination by China scholars and questioning from others at how individuals who are often...
- Jan 21, 2020
- 7 min
The False Promise of Beijing’s One Belt, One Road Initiative
By Peter Zhang It’s safe to assume that Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel laureate in economics, wasn’t kidding when he authored “There’s...
- Jan 19, 2020
- 5 min
採區塊鏈發貨幣 中共想搶第一 恐致金融大亂
By Dr. Grace Wang 區塊鏈技術可以被運用到很多領域，如果不在法律和道德的框架下運行，就將損害民眾利益。中共央行若發行數字貨幣，存在很多隱憂。 最近「區塊鏈」被習近平提到國家戰略發展層面。10月24日習近平帶領政治局上了一堂區塊鏈專題課，課上發表講話，強調區塊...
- Jan 18, 2020
- 7 min
The Story of Chinese Characters
Of all the cultural heritages and legacies that have evolved in the world, none is more significant than the human language.
- Jan 12, 2020
- 5 min
The Tech Bubble in Asia, 20 Years Later
It was so much fun to live in the frenzy of the tech bubble in the final few years of the 20th century. The advent of the Internet was...
- Jan 12, 2020
- 2 min
Corporate America is Considerably more Profitable than Corporate Japan
To begin with, Corporate America (in light blue) is considerably more profitable than Corporate Japan (in navy), in terms of ROA as measured
- Jan 10, 2020
- 7 min
Investing in Japan: 30 Years in Review
A scorecard for a 30-year track record of the Nikkei index, as compared with the Dow Jones Industrial Average. 1. The worst market by far...