Open government

Amidst all the changes introduced by the Hatoyama government since it took office in September...

Pineapple, Pepperoni with extra S.a.a.S

You’ve all eaten there, the real first choice of any date in roppongi before a movie, Pizzakaya, the place for real Pizza.

Tamogami, Palin, and populist conservatisms

It has been just over a year since General Toshio Tamogami was drummed out of the service...

Taking the Long View on Asia

I have long sat beside the table of Mckinsey & Co., the best management consulting company in Asia, hoping to catch some crumbs of wisdom...

JGB masochists versus sadist hedgies

No doubt David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital) is an astute investor....

M&A will be key for Japanese equities in 2010

Reuters (article in Japanese) reports that Goldman Sachs issued a report earlier this week that argues M&A will be the major theme for Japanese equities in 2010....

Time for the US to accept new realities

According to Helene Cooper of the New York Times, "President Obama will arrive in Tokyo on Friday, at a time when America’s relations with Japan are at their most contentious since the trade wars of the 1990s."...

You Can't Make Me Become the Next CEO of the Bank of America

I don’t care how many times you ask me, I’m not going to replace Ken Lewis as the new CEO of the Bank of America (BAC)...

The IMF on Asia's recovery and its sustainability

In case you had not noticed, the IMF is blogging and it is not "merely" the garden variety IMF staffers they are rolling out to fill the pages; nope here we are treated to the likes of Blanchard, Atkinson, Lipsky, Cottarelli and a host of other of the Fund's A-listers...

Special demographic issue

Desperate homeowners counting on a “V” shaped recovery in residential real estate prices to bail them out better first take a close look at global demographic data, which tells us there will be no recovery at all...

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