Jesus wept. My short response to the Financial Times's sale to Nikkei. The longer version follows below.
Taro Aso, the current but perhaps not for much longer prime minister of Japan, is a man of many vices. He is rude. He is crude. He is spoilt. He
Noriko Hama is professor at Doshisha Business School. She writes regularly and commentates frequently in leading journals (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan Times, Financial Times) and broadcasting media (NHK, BBC, CNN). Her
A bad workman blames his tools. Incompetent summiteers blame people who are not there. Indeed, the all-too-familiar lines of the American writer Hughes Mearns might have been written for the
He came, he was blind, he was slaughtered. Shinzo Abe succeeded Junichiro Koizumi as prime minister of Japan in September 2006 claiming he would put an end to Japan'
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you / Till China and Africa meet / And the river jumps over the mountain......" So wrote the poet WH
Shinzo Abe could not have hoped for a more dramatic debut as Japan's new prime minister His choice of China and South Korea as his first ports of
Is it to be deepening or enlargement? Is it economics or politics? Is it cohesion or variable geometry? Is it, in short, yet another article about the future of the
Junichiro Koizumi that consummate opportunist and populist has done it again, managing to secure himself an overwhelming majority in the snap general election he called on a daredevil impulse and
