So, finally, the coronavirus crisis has forced Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to declare a state of emergency and thereby enable a “soft” version of the...
Japan has been experiencing low inflation and deflation since the 1990s, and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has been fighting deflation ever since. It is...
The New York Times ran one of its periodic pieces on how bad things are in Japan. The gist of this piece is that China’s...
More than once this writer has come out with the view that the government should drop the planned consumption tax rate hike slated to rise...
