Journalist encounters prison ordeal in quest to find his children
Freelance sports journalist Scott McIntyre spoke at the FCCJ in Tokyo yesterday, following Wednesday’s suspended six-month jail sentence issued...
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IDEO’s Tom Kelley shares his dream to dial up entrepreneurship in Japan
First published by The Japan Times A little wave of euphoria often overwhelms Tom Kelley, while sitting at a...
Looking overseas to solve Japan’s labor shortage
First published by The Japan Times Entrepreneur Misa Matsuzaki likes a good business challenge. The youngest female entrepreneur to...
The BOJ’s next step down a narrow path
First published by The Japan Times Six and a half years after unleashing massive monetary easing, the Bank of...
Pension reform must accompany consumption tax hike
First published by The Japan Times The heavily taxed Swedes reportedly are among the world’s happiest people. Their cheerful...
What to expect at the G20 Osaka Summit
Japan will host the G20 Summit on the 28th and 29th of June in Osaka. The G20 is a yearly...
Panasonic makes game-changing efforts to innovate
The gray-walled silent corridors were ominously foreboding. I had come to visit the man tasked with jump-starting creative innovation at...
Keep Climbing!
One voice stood out amid the cacophony of Slush Tokyo 2019, the annual tech event which now defines Tokyo’s...
Robert Ryker strikes the right chord
Conductor Zubin Mehta once told Robert Ryker that Mehta’s two orchestras, the Montreal Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic,...
Corporate governance is improving, but not by enough
First published by The Japan Times Quick test: Two banks “A” and “B” offer interest rates of 2 percent and...