Japan must do more to support the US-Japan alliance
The US-Japan security alliance has been the cornerstone of Asia-Pacific regional order since the 1960s. It may well still...
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Looking beyond work-style reform
First published by The Japan Times Enactment of the government’s work-style reform legislation by the Diet in June heralds the...
How to build the perfect China business
What do Facebook, Google, eBay, Amazon and Uber have in common? Each has failed in China. Being successful in...
What’s so good about Japan’s demography?
First published by The Japan Times. Pessimists obsess about Japan’s debt, deflation and demographics. The last on the list,...
Are Japan’s private investigators public enemy number one?
Two years ago, a US-based couple hired Tokyo private detective Goro Koyama to help them gain custody over their 5-year...
Using Education to Make Japan Great Again?
First published by The Diplomat Professor Yuki Honda, a sociologist at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Education, is...
How to unleash Japan’s animal spirits
First published by The Japan Times Japan owes its wide middle class to post-war laborers who selflessly worked for...
Speculating on the future of initial coin offerings
First published by The Japan Times Initial coin offerings took the world by storm last year. In total $5bn...
Go East, young man! In search of digital oil…
The Economist Magazine highlighted the impact of the digital revolution on the global economy when it compared data to...
The backpacker’s guide to Far East venturing
Alex Farfurnik was born in the Soviet Union in 1982 to Jewish parents in what today is the...