Japan inadvertently intervenes to soften yen

The yen is still “relatively” strong, but it has weakened by a pretty significant amount against the dollar, nearly 10 points, in recent weeks.

Shifting gears

Keiretsu corporate networks are innate to the Japanese auto sector, but could this system finally be changing?

To Print Or Not To Print, That Is The Question

Japan is yet to see a lot of unimaginable consequences of recession this year.

Thoughts on Nakagawa and on investing in Japan

Former Japanese Finance Minister Nakagawa should never have been at the press conference that did in his career, and now has the Japanese press gone mad discussing “reputation risk?”

Japan's grim-and- bear-it 2009 outlook

Things in Japan are looking grim. They keep getting grimmer, and it doesn't seem they will be getting less grim anytime soon. To give you some idea of what this means, only this week we learnt that Japan’s steel production fell 28 percent in December. This was the steepest decline in no less than six decades. Meanwhile Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Tokyo University professor and head of the Japanese government business cycle measurement committee said that Japan’s present recession may become the longest in the postwar era.

Sparks of hope for financial industry

As well as the big sharks of the financial world, many smaller fish slip through the financial seas, quietly and unobtrusively doing their business, until they become big fish in their own right. One of these has been the SPARX Group, founded 20 years ago, based out of Japan, which had about JPY1.7 tln in assets under management in 2006. These assets are managed on behalf of a number of institutional investors, based on principles learned from George Soros by the SPARX founder, Shuhei Abe when Abe managed Soros’s Japanese investments.

Common sense needed in the fight against pandemics

As the winter flus set in, there's no need for panic to follow.

It takes a village to move a ministry

As the streets continue to fill with the newly destitute, NPOs are calling for the government to take ownership of the growing crisis.

Japan Badly Needs One New Year's Resolution

Why Japan needs to tone down its conservatism for its survival.

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