Ichiro Suzuki On March 19, the Bank of Japan has raised its interest rate paid to commercial banks’ deposits with the central bank for...

Ichiro Suzuki The economy appears to be dying a slow death. It must be too much to say this on the Chinese economy. This statement,...

Ichiro Suzuki The global car industry is on a new trend since late 2023. Battery-powered electric vehicles (BEVs), or EVs as casually...

Ichiro Suzuki In early February, heads of corporations based in the Kansai area (Osaka, Kyoto and the vicinity) gathered for a conference...

Ichiro Suzuki The world’s second largest economy is grappling with unraveling of its real estate market. It has escaped a spectacular...

Ichiro Suzuki The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Nikkei index has been on a rising trend since the last decade. The index closed January at...

Ichiro Suzuki The NISA or the Nippon Individual Savings Account is a tax-free investment scheme created by the Japanese government in...

Ichiro Suzuki Moody’s has recently cut China’s outlook to ‘negative’. The move is often considered as a harbinger to a downgrade unless...

By Ichiro Suzuki Well over the last 100 years, the list of the world’s largest corporations has shown who’s hot and who’s not from one...

Ichiro Suzuki China’s President Xi Jinping recently attended  the G-20 meetings. In San Francisco, Mr. Xi dined with American business...

Ichiro Suzuki Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan shook his head in early summer of 2003, looking at a steady fall in...

Ichiro Suzuki Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has recently drafted a bill that raises salaries for public workers employed by...

Ichiro Suzuki China’s economic statistics can’t be taken at face value. This has been well understood among economists and investors...

Ichiro Suzuki Absolutely nothing has been delivered since emerging markets reached their apex at the end of October 2007. Sixteen years...

Ichiro Suzuki The Japanese yen is once again flirting at 150 to the U.S. dollar, a year after a massive solo intervention in the...

Ichiro Suzuki The Japanese government has recently announced that dedicated lanes for driverless cars be laid out in the existing...

Ichiro Suzuki On August 24, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) started discharging treated water, which has been stored in tanks,...

Ichiro Suzuki China’s renminbi is under pressure recently. Beijing is reportedly making great efforts to stem the currency’s decline...

Ichiro Suzuki By the summer of 2023, it has become almost public knowledge that China’s economy is in trouble, mired in a ‘balance sheet...

Ichiro Suzuki Nomura Research Institute economist Richard Koo is forever proud of having coined a word ‘balance sheet recession’ to...