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Japan should sell Senkaku Islands

Japan should sell Senkaku Islands

Since the collapse of Japan's bubble economy over 20 years ago, its public debt has exploded. Japan could sell the disputed Senkaku Islands to China and achieve peace, as well as debt reduction! Read more...
Cool entrepreneurship in Japan

Cool entrepreneurship in Japan

Today, Japan may be on the cusp of a fresh wave of entrepreneurship, 'cool entrepreneurship', that could make Japan's creative industries a new source of growth. Read more...
No vision for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

No vision for 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

There is still no vision yet in sight for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games argues Sven Saaler from Tokyo's Sophia University. Read more...
CSR in Japan

CSR in Japan

Japan has a very strong commitment to corporate social responsibility in the environment area, Anbumozhi Venkatachalam explained in his excellent lecture at Tokyo's Sophia University. Read more...
Feeling like a thousand yen

Yen decline on the cards

A Yen decline looks likely as Abenomics slows down, writes OMFIF Chairman David Marsh. Read more...
Beijing September 2012

Japan's Chinese investment risk

China's dramatic rise has been driven by international investment and trade, especially with Japan. But today, political tensions between the two countries are threatening this relationship. Read more...
Age

Japan's demographic drama

Japan is undergoing a dramatic demographic transition, with a rapid aging and prospective decline of its population. What are the reasons? Does it matter? What to do? Read more...
secret spot somewhere in Ibaraki - wind energy

Japan's energy challenges

Japan's energy policy challenges of energy security, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability -- the "3Es" -- have only become more challenging following the Fukushima nuclear crisis. Read more...
Tokyo Stock Exchange

Tokyo's stock market

Tokyo's stock market has taken off this year, apparently boosted by "Abenomics" and the decision to hold the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. How long will the party last? Read more...
Day 3: FIH Mens' Junior World Cup 2009

Japan -- Australia's best friend!

"As far as I'm concerned, Japan is Australia's best friend in Asia and we want to keep it a very strong friendship," Australia's Tony Abbott told Japan's Shinzo Abe. Read more...
Ueno Park, Japan

How's life in Japan?

How's life in Japan? It's a case of sweet and sour, according to the OECD's Better Life Initiative. Read more...
Japanese Fasion Posters

Japan's seeds of malaise

Japan's iron triangle of big business, bureaucrats and politicians drove its post-war rise. But they also planted the seeds of its present malaise, which Abenomics must now tackle. Read more...
A Lunchtime Snapshot

Doing business in Japan

Doing business in Japan is notoriously difficult. But then again, companies like Ikea and Starbucks succeed famously.

What is the truth of the matter? Read more...
The Rise of Unconventional Monetary Policy: Posen

Japan's lost decades

Japan may now be emerging from its two lost decades. But could they have been avoided in the first place? Who was responsible? And could Japan stumble again when it increases its consumption tax. Read more...
JAPAN MYANMAR DIPLOMACY

Japan's and Myanmar's strategic partnership

Emanuele Schibotto writes of the impressive strategic partnership unfolding between Japan and Myanmar. Read more...
Statesmen’s Forum: HE Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of Japan

Japan must now go for growth!

Japan must now go for growth! Its GDP per capita is stuck at 20% below that of the upper half of the advanced OECD countries. And its labor productivity remains 25% below. Read more...
Japan - Kyoto

Fast facts on Japan

Here are some fast facts on Japan's population, economy and business that I have prepared for my students at Tokyo's Sophia University. Read more...
I Love Japan

Japan is my favorite Asian nation

"Japan is my favorite Asian nation", writes James Pereyra from Tokyo's Sophia University, "but there is still much work to do for the country to realize its full potential". Read more...
4.11 原発反対デモin高円寺 Anti nuclear power protests in Kouenji

Japan: towards a renewable energy future?

Following the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan has the opportunity to chart a new future based on renewable energy, writes Aline Schaltz from Tokyo's Sophia University. Read more...
Look at these Faces to Turn Japanese

Japan's social contract under severe stress

Only a few decades ago, Japan seemed to have one of the world's strongest social contracts. But today, it is under severe stress. Read more...