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Jul 19, 20223 min read
House of Councillors Election
Ichiro Suzuki On July 10, two days after the shocking death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan voted for the House of...
Jul 13, 20224 min read
Shinzo Abe Made the World Better
Ichiro Suzuki The day after Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe, 67, was shot dead on July 8, 2022, The Atlantic magazine paid...
Jul 6, 20222 min read
The Bank of Japan vs. Speculators
By Ichiro Suzuki The Bank of Japan was under pressure in recent weeks. Some speculators began to believe that the BOJ’s ability to cap...
Jun 8, 20227 min read
The Asian Financial Crisis, 25 years later
Ichiro Suzuki In the summer of 1997, mega waves of economic crisis hit the Far East and Southeast Asia region. It began with...
Jun 1, 20223 min read
Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)
Ichiro Suzuki President Joe Biden, in Tokyo in late May, unveiled a new economic framework for the Asia-Pacific region. The...
May 30, 20220 min read
May 25, 20224 min read
Is China’s Financial Power Waning?
Ichiro Suzuki Earlier this month, there was a headline that read “Saudi Aramco overtakes Apple as the most valuable corporation.” This...
May 17, 20225 min read
Okinawa
Ichiro Suzuki May 15, 2022 has marked the 50th anniversary of the hand over of Okinawa, the East China Sea islands that had been under ...
May 10, 20220 min read
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May 10, 20225 min read
A Perfect Storm Against ESG Investing
Ichiro Suzuki Over the past decade, the investing community has grown increasingly conscious of its impact on well-being of us who...
May 3, 20223 min read
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor)
Ichiro Suzuki Offshoring has been an oft-talked about issue in the U.S. over the past decade. It began decades ago, and became a wave...
Apr 26, 20224 min read
Bad Weak Yen. Be Careful What you Wish For
Ichiro Suzuki This spring, the Japanese yen keeps rewriting 20-year low against the U.S. dollar. This is on a nominal basis, and the...
Apr 19, 20220 min read
Apr 19, 20224 min read
Mask Mandate
By Ichiro Suzuki Philadelphia is reinstating mask mandate on indoor activities as highly contagious Omicron’s Ba.2 subvariant refuses...
Apr 5, 20225 min read
Is this the Renminbi’s Moment?
By Ichiro Suzuki As a war rages in Ukraine, Russia is facing far harsher sanctions that anyone expected. Expulsion from SWIFT and...
Mar 22, 20225 min read
Demise of the BRICS
Ichiro Suzuki At the outset of the 21st century, Goldman Sachs’ London-based chief economist Jim O’Neal saw the future of up and...
Mar 17, 20224 min read
A Short History of Russo-Japanese Relationships
By Ichiro Suzuki While a war rages in Ukraine, Japan is no stranger to territorial disputes with Russia, along with the majority of...
Mar 9, 20225 min read
Ukraine War’s Cost on China
By Ichiro Suzuki At the beginning of February, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics...
Feb 26, 20223 min read
Inflation is returning to Japan
By Ichiro Suzuki In sympathy with a global trend, consumer prices in Japan are rising at last after a few decades of ultra low...
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