Publication: Asahi Shimbun
Time for a change, in Japan
15.07.09 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
A time for change. That is the basic feeling that surrounds elections in parliamentary democracies all over the world, especially when one party has been in...
Read moreDesperate days for Doha
28.07.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
This week, on the shores of Lake Geneva, a meeting has been taking place that could determine whether globalization continues to make progress or whether...
Read moreAsia and the American election
16.06.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
Now that the Democrats have at last chosen their presidential candidate, the real guessing game can begin: what might the choice between Barack Obama and John...
Read moreThe IMF and its fiscal recipe
18.02.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
If you think back ten years ago, to the East Asian financial crisis that began in Thailand and then spread all over the region, brought down the Suharto...
Read moreTata´s Nano car and India´s arrival
19.01.08 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
Lakes full of ink have been spilled about the unveiling in India on January 10th by Tata Motors of its new, super-cheap car. Many have pondered whether the...
Read moreMinimum wages in Germany and Japan
26.12.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
Politics and economics often pull in different directions. In the world’s third biggest economy, Germany, a policy is being debated intensely that makes...
Read moreThe importance of Pakistan to Japan
18.11.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
In 1938 the British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, justified his attempt to ignore Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the central European state of...
Read moreWhy Fukuda should visit Nanjing
08.10.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
For an outsider to comment about the historical issues between Japan and China feels instinctively awkward—rather like a stranger butting in on a family...
Read moreNightmares about globalisation
03.09.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
There are two popular nightmares about globalisation, and sadly neither is quite foolish enough to be easily proven false. Over the next year, both are going...
Read moreShinzo Abe´s lessons for Gordon Brown
23.07.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
It is hard to follow a superstar. In that regard, Britain’s Gordon Brown and Japan’s Shinzo Abe share a common predicament. Like Mr Abe in October 2006,...
Read moreTough love needed for climate change to stop
24.06.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
Nowadays, we all think that the planet needs to be saved and we all want to do our bit to save it. That, at least, is what a visitor from outer space might...
Read moreChina´s stockmarket bubble
21.05.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
What is a bubble? No one really knows: people tend to agree on what bubbles are only after they have burst. But a pretty fair indicator is when a stockmarket...
Read moreJapan´s interest in an Asian community
01.04.07 Publication: Asahi Shimbun
The European Union has just celebrated its 50th birthday, or rather the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome which established the first,...
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