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I have been “mistaken,” “misled,” “misrepresented,” and been “unaccountably in error,”
and am sorry if you have been offended

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Labor Reform Not Happening?

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A Q&(My)A that appears not to have been used in that media outlet, so here it is: Q. Given that making it easier for companies to h...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

An LGBT Epiphany?

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Or am I just late to the conversation? And is it sufficiently explanatory? I’m having lunch with a couple of foreign correspondents, on...
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5“AMATORKA Z POLSKI POKONAŁA PROFESJONALISTKĘ W SHŌGI”

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My sentiments, exactly . And yes, it is amazing, even if she had been, as I suspect, a very proficient chess player.
Friday, May 24, 2013

A Kohno/Murayama-Abe-Hashimoto Dialogue

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The following exchange took place between me and a Chinese analyst over the working week, edited for typos and augmented for clarity. I (th...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Why Did Abe Dispatch a Senior Advisor to North Korea?

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I have no way of knowing, which is probably a good thing, since I wouldn’t be able to talk about it if I did, would I? But I do have some ...

Has the Japanese Economy Really Sucked as Much as I’ve Been Led to Believe?

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As doomsayers have changed their sell on Abenomics from it’s not going to work to it’s not really working to it’s not working that much al...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

Did Something Funny Happen to Me on China Radio International? I’m Staying Tuned

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20130510Did Something Funny Happen to Me on China Radio International? I’m Staying Tuned It’s a Friday night and I’m having a few beers ...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Is Mrs. Watanabe Already Gearing Up to Play the Role of the Greater Fool?

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Analysts agree that individual investors largely sat out the pre-lower house-election, post-summer, stock-market recovery. Most also believ...
Wednesday, May 01, 2013

From Prime Minister Abe’s Take on “Aggression,” to Reading Entrails

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Prime Minister Abe said the wrong thing, but was what he said wrong? But first, let’s clear up one thing; the Japanese media did not “refr...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

On “Abenomics” Step One, on China Radio International

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This Monday, I took part in a one-hour panel discussion on China Radio International entitled “ Japan’s Central Bank Reviving the Economy ...
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Jun Okumura
After graduation, Jun Okumura promptly entered what is now the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and stayed in in its ecosystem most of his “adult” life. Along the way, he had pleasant stops in an assortment of Japanese quangos (Japangos?), overseas assignments and government agencies. After thirty years, though, it dawned on him that he had no aptitude whatsoever for administration and/or management. Armed with this epiphany, he went to the authorities and arranged an amicable separation; to come out, as it were. He is completely on his own IYKWIAS, but he and the METI folks remain “good friends.” He currently holds the titles of “visiting researcher” at the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs (no, that MIGA) and counselor at a risk analysis firm that dares not speak its name. This gives him plenty of time to blog or make money on his own. His bank account says that he does too much of the first, and insists that he do more of what he calls “intellectual odd jobs”. He wants to be paid to write fulltime, or better, talk—where the easy money is—but that distinction has largely escaped him. He really should not be referring to himself in the third person; he is not that famous.
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