InJapanCuriousbyKevin VH·May 20, 2025A Clever Tax Program in Japan Leads to Unexpected OutcomesEvery government policy has trade-offs, with winners and losersA response icon1A response icon1
Umi Mississippi·Dec 9, 2024Where the Irritation Brings Us To?; Hirokazu Kore-eda and Toyonori YamauchiThe cloud has nothing to say―who wrote this sentence, Toyonori Yamauchi, greatly worked hard for the Japanese welfare in the central…
James Paek·Nov 5, 2023It’s been over a decade since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, yet its ripple effects are…The haunting memories of the 2011 triple disaster — the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear meltdown — are still fresh in the…
InThe Bull StreetbyOguz Yildirim·Mar 1, 2021Why the Tokyo Olympics must go aheadHosting the games has little to do with the games. Here is what’s at stake and how Covid is an opportunity for the Tokyo Olympics.
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Yan Sen Lu·Jan 14, 2021A global pandemic, social unrest, political and economic turbulence — many characterize 2020 as…Japan’s unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 2.9% in November 2020, the lowest in five months. At the same time, the job-applicant…
Tetsuo Hagiwara(萩原 哲夫)·Jan 28, 2019消費税上げと国の借金と国民の財布国の借金問題がマスコミ等で議論されるとき、どういうわけかフローの1千兆円のみがフォーカスされ、いまどき法人会計ではフツ―な複式簿記の視点が全く抜けてしまってるのはおかしくありませんか?…