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ECONOMICS

COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2016
Prep for China's two-child consumption engine
China's abolition of its one-child policy is going to have a profound impact on the country's economy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 29, 2015
Time traveling back to the major screwups of 2015
From the fizzling out of Abenomics to China's stock fiasco, here are five of Asia's policy missteps this year.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2015
China's planning addiction vs. a free market
As 2015 closes, China's leaders find themselves at a crossroads: They must decide whether to continue trying to control the economy or build a genuinely market-oriented system.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Dec 20, 2015
China's consumption blues
China's economy appears headed on a gradual downward trajectory amid sluggish consumption, stagnant income levels and a graying population.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 23, 2015
Abe's growing China problem
Abe talks big on reform but hasn't delivered the radical change needed to adapt to 6 percent growth in China.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 19, 2015
Could South Korea be turning Japanese?
South Korea's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, like Japan's once did, but now it risks falling into the same kind of malaise as well.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2015
China's masses stubbornly refuse to consume
A Chinese economic 'rebalancing' — replacing investment and exports with services and domestic consumption — remains a distant prospect.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2015
Putin's Fortress Russia takes an economic toll
Hit by Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, Vladimir Putin has adopted an isolationist policy that is crippling the Russian economy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 26, 2015
Abe's magic doesn't work
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants Japan to believe there are magic solutions to the complex problems facing society, to the detriment of the nation.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 9, 2015
When the 'febezzle' comes home to roost
In any case of embezzlement, there is a period when the embezzler has his gain and the victim feels no loss — a period of increased psychic wealth that John Kenneth Galbraith called 'the bezzle.'
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2015
TPP deal needs a sober assessment
A sober assessment is needed of what Japan stands to gain and lose from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2015
Could the 'Asian century' already be petering out?
Nations across Asia stand at a crossroads and must decide between moving forward based on reforms or continuing to stagnate.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2015
New global economic order: cost crash and demand lull
The world economy is being shaped by a cost crash and a demand lull.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015
China had better avoid global debt-deflation trap
China now faces the same debt-deflation challenge that much of the rest of the world must address. The question, of course, is how.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015
'Pope-onomics': Francis' keys to a better economy
Pope Francis is a strong and eloquent advocate of people sharing and governing their enterprises together.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 27, 2015
Containing the inevitable Chinese slowdown
China's economy is heading for a slowdown, but it doesn't have to be dire.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2015
Automation doesn't always improve productivity
Common sense says a business that invests in automation will be more productive, but the statistics tell a different story.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2015
Economic forecasting in the age of big data
Properly used, new data sources have the potential to revolutionize economic forecasts.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 20, 2015
Job only half-done for Japan's working women
Women are entering Japan's workforce in greater numbers, but are still largely being shunted into low-paying, low-benefit jobs.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 8, 2015
Figuring out the world's economic funk
Forecasters have repeatedly overestimated the global economy's strength because they underestimate the influence of the financial crisis and Great Recession on people's confidence.
Who needs AI when you have Hatsune Miku?
Over the first six months of 2024, a handful of songs using Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku’s voice have enjoyed widespread attention, underlining a global interest in the character and the technology she represents.
Yen’s woes seem too big for even a BOJ hike this month to solve
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
China’s economic growth comes in worse than expected
Pedestrians in the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing on July 11, 2024. China's economic growth in the second quarter was lower than forecast, adding pressure on Chinese leaders to lift confidence at the Chinese Communist Party's third plenum this week.
Kansai airports to increase takeoff and landing slots ahead of Osaka Expo
Kansai International Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture. The upper limit on the number of takeoff and landing slots at the airport as well as Kobe Airport in Hyogo Prefecture will be raised in spring next year ahead of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.

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Akiko Trush says her experience with the neurological disorder dystonia left her feeling like she wanted to chop her own hand off.
The neurological disorder that 'kills culture'
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