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GLOBAL ECONOMY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2022
The selective Sovietization of American capitalism
The soft budget constraints that socialist state-owned enterprises used to enjoy turned out to be one of the main reasons why Soviet-bloc economies failed.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 9, 2022
Reopening the world and ourselves
What have we learned about nationalism and globalization that we can carry into a post-pandemic future?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 7, 2022
Debt-for-climate swaps make sense
The suitability of conditional debt relief as a financing tool for low-income countries to tackle climate change is not always obvious.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 6, 2022
Advancing the trade cure
Trade liberalization and international economic cooperation can help the world weather whatever crisis comes its way.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 5, 2022
COVID-19 and the rise of digital capitalism
The pandemic has allowed the dominant players in digital industries to conduct a full-scale experiment regarding the virtual world's assimilation of the physical one.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2022
Forget black swans. We need to find the snow leopards.
Things to keep an eye on in 2022, the growing role of cities in the fight against climate change, the dawn of lab meat, and the resurgence of mass activism on a global scale.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2022
Is strategic cooperation between the U.S. and China possible?
Attitudes on both sides are hardening, with Washington and Beijing settling into a comfortable but unproductive certitude that it occupies the moral high ground.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 3, 2022
Restoring dynamism to development
Multilateral development institutions with a capacity to drive policy reform are key to securing robust, sustainable and inclusive growth in a post-pandemic world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2022
Where to find cheaper alternatives to expensive stocks
Small companies in the U.S. are as cheap as they have ever been relative to the broad market.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 2, 2022
Recovering stronger together in 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, but there is a ray of hope for a better tomorrow in both the health sector and the wider economy.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 1, 2022
No wiggle room ahead as world looks to move on from pandemic
The economic and social policies that countries around the world choose now as they look to move on from the pandemic will have consequences for decades to come.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2021
What inflation in 2022 will teach us about capitalism
Since the 1980s, capitalism has evolved to keep inflation under control. The risk now is that capitalism has embarked on a regime change.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2021
Sayonara and good riddance to 2021. Enter the Tiger.
There were many winners and losers in 2021, a year in which the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus once again dominated the headlines.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2021
Expect more turbulent years ahead for the oil producers
The next five years may be no smoother for oil producers than its first five have been.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Dec 29, 2021
Asia’s regional threats
There is no balance of power or set of rules, norms and practices that can ensure stable and predictable interstate relations in Asia.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 24, 2021
East Asia’s 'Squid Game' economies
Nowadays, South Korean capitalism seems more noxious — perhaps because it has been converging with the liberal Anglo-Saxon model, with its weak investment, slow growth and high inequality.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 23, 2021
Turning inward: Why China continues to rise
The heyday of globalization soon could be replaced by a post-pandemic era shaped by national-security concerns and border controls.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 19, 2021
Amid the climate change crisis, the GDP metric’s days are numbered
The core idea of a new GDP metric is to create a comprehensive balance sheet to demonstrate that economic progress today is illusory when it comes at the expense of future living standards.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 17, 2021
The U.S. can’t keep dodging the trade issue in Asia
China trades nearly three times as much with the rest of the region as the U.S. does and far outpaces Washington in economic diplomacy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2021
Gaming controllers hit bumps on way to U.S. consumers
The global supply chain breakdown during the pandemic has overwhelmed ports and left manufacturers, retailers, railroads and truckers scrambling to get goods to shelves.
3D printer used to construct train station building in Japan
A train station building (front) is assembled from parts printed using 3D printer technology, in Arida, Wakayama Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Nissan says it will not take new U.S. orders for Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs
A Nissan manufacturing complex in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Nissan says it will not take new orders from the United States for two Mexican-built Infiniti SUVs following new auto tariffs levied by the U.S.
Japan digs deep to address 'national crisis' caused by Trump tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on April 1. He has said that Japan is facing a "national crisis" following the introduction of new tariffs by the United States.
Tokyo’s KK Line to close for decadelong overhaul as public greenway
People enjoy running and yoga on Tokyo Expressway’s KK Line, a 2-kilometer elevated expressway cutting through the capital’s commercial Ginza district, when it was opened as a pedestrian space in May last year.
Japan promises 'bold and speedy' response to Trump’s surprise 24% tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump unveils new U.S. tariffs at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
Tottori takes a bold leap forward in the arts
The city of Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture celebrated the opening of its public art museum with festivities such as a parade that drew 1,000 revelers.
Haruki Murakami TV adaptation revisits 30 years of watershed moments
Though Haruki Murakami's trademark whiff of offbeat existentialism is threaded throughout NHK's "After the Quake," the final episode — conceived as a sequel to the story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" — is the most stylized, featuring an anthropomorphic talking frog (voiced by Non) and his erstwhile associate Katagiri (Koichi Sato).
Nintendo to launch the Switch 2 on June 5
The controllers for the Switch 2 will attach to the console magnetically rather than sliding on rails as with the original device.
A new human trafficking trend emerges from Myanmar scam centers
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar gather at a compound inside KK Park, a fraud center on the country's border with Thailand, after a multinational crackdown in February.
A Canadian made a weekend trip to Costco a Japanese pastime
Under the watchful eye of Ken Theriault, Costco representative director and Japan country manager, the American membership-model wholesaler has flourished in Japan.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
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