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CHINESE ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 30, 2017
China versus the Washington Consensus
China's continued economic success calls into question longstanding assumptions about the optimal balance of state and market mechanisms in driving economic development.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2017
Who has the world's No. 1 economy? Not the U.S.
The days of U.S. economic supremacy are over.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Aug 3, 2017
China's fear of becoming Japan fueling crackdown on leverage, corporate buying sprees
President Xi Jinping's top economic adviser commissioned a study earlier this year to see how China could avoid the fate of Japan's epic bust in the 1990s and decades of stagnation that followed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2017
China's imperial overreach
According to a Chinese proverb, 'To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.' The further Xi carries China's 'one belt, one road' initiative, the more likely it is to bite him.
COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2017
Beijing has a patchy record on projects
China's drive to build its political influence in Africa and Asia through infrastructure has been plagued by quality-control issues and cost overruns.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
May 23, 2017
The day China's version of the Lehman crisis explodes
Concerns are mounting in international financial circles that the present status of China's economy is getting closer to what had existed in the United States when it was hit by the crisis triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 23, 2017
China could be the future of the sharing economy
At a time when much of China's economy is slowing or stalling, the sharing sector is booming.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2017
Long-awaited 'Asian century' might not ever come
There may well be an 'Asian century' in the future, but don't hold your breath.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 20, 2017
China's hidden protectionism nabs Peppa Pig
Although China has liberalized its economy in recent years, it has also erected a sophisticated set of barriers to safeguard companies it views as national champions.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2017
Time to hit pause button on panic over China's economy
The buzzword for China's leaders in 2017 is stability. The current trajectory puts them on track to achieve it.
EDITORIALS
Jan 29, 2017
Beware risks in China's economy
China's economy appears rather fragile, and any problem there will most certainly be felt in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2017
China's latest innovation? The ballpoint pen
China's $9 million drive to make high quality ballpoint pens illustrates what's wrong with its economy.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2017
Look for Alibaba's counterfeit woes to drag on
By many measures, counterfeiting is one of China's leading industrial sectors.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 3, 2017
China's dangerous 2017 dominates the region
Fears of a Chinese financial crash loom large, but Japan and South Korea also face thorny challenges.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Dec 21, 2016
Honda keeps twin SUVs coming as China rewards 'badge engineering'
In China's auto market, carmakers are employing a strategy that's long been eschewed by the rest of the world: If a new model is helping you win, introduce a twin.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 13, 2016
Komatsu China sales jump as recovery quickens from 5-year slump
Komatsu Ltd., the world's second-biggest maker of construction and mining equipment, said its sales of excavators in China almost doubled last month, signaling an acceleration in the recovery from a five-year slump in what was once its largest market.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2016
China's progress is killing the instant noodle
Rising wages have improved living standards and expectations for millions of Chinese workers.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2016
Don't hype China's reserve currency moment
Hopes that entry into the IMF's currency basket would quicken the pace of reforms have been dashed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 20, 2016
Japan steelmakers suffer as China squeezes coal industry, sending fuel price soaring above $200
The nation's steel makers are set to pay for China's effort to manage its coal industry as a surge in metallurgical prices flow through to quarterly supply contracts.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

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