Economic policy advisor Motoshige Itoh talks about how to resolve Japan’s growing debt problems
How should an advanced nation like Japan with low growth potential, an aging population and a shrinking workforce, go...
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Economist Richard Katz: Unshackling Japan’s human potential
Two and one-half years after its inception, Abenomics isn’t working. Economist Richard Katz believes that is because Abe’s three...
The cost of Japan’s missed ICT revolution
Japan did not reap the benefits of the information, computer and technology revolution as did the US at the...
Moxie with a proxy
Last April heads turned when Japan’s GPIF announced that it had named activist investor Taiyo Pacific Partners to help...
All eyes are on the BOJ
The Bank of Singapore’s Chief Economist Richard Jerram doesn’t fault the Bank of Japan for the jam it is...
Doshisha’s Prof. Noriko Hama advises redistributing wealth to kick-start Japan’s economy
With the fanfare surrounding the arrival of economist Thomas Piketty in Tokyo earlier this month, it is perhaps...
Can Japanese service firms compete in global markets?
When Satoshi Hirose, a former A.T. Kearney management consultant, was hired by US-based private equity firm Bain Capital to...
Shinzo Abe’s Olympic challenge
Prime Minister Abe’s medium-term plan to bring government deficit spending under control by 2020 is nothing short of an...
Talking (or not talking) about the hard issues of fiscal sustainability
Prime Minister Abe speaks with confidence and conviction when he promises to make bold reforms and to drill through...
Who will buy Japanese Government Bonds after 2016?
Japan cannot grow its national debt as a percentage of GDP indefinitely. At some point, if government deficit spending...