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  Russell Clark is a hedge fund investor who has lived and worked in both Japan and China. He writes the widely followed Substack Capital Fl...

It seems implausible to me that PRC would risk an invasion of Taiwan in the near term, absent a very strong provocation such as an outright ...

  I recommend this episode of The Red Line geostrategy podcast: Japan and The Quad .  Serious analysts from the Asia-Pacific region (e.g., A...

My first visit to Japan was in 1993. Ostensibly, I was there to attend a conference on High Energy Physics at the University of Tokyo,...

弱肉強食 These characters mean "Weak Meat Strong Eat" -- the weak are meat for the strong. It's a Chinese (and Japanese) saying....

The FT's Asia editor has lunch with Japan scholar Donald Keene  (shown above with Yukio Mishima and Hiroshi Akutagawa). Keene has...

See my post Sell Sony, buy Samsung from 2005 for comparison. Where is Ken Kutagari these days? Younger people today probably can't reme...

I was never enamored of his fiction (I've read more biographies of Mishima than novels by him), but Yukio Mishima lived one of the most...

The grunts at Fukushima are not doing it for money. No "Yeah, I calculated the NPV, and, you know, it's just not worth it for me. I...

Some videos to take us into the weekend here in Asia. Nuclear Boy And two more just for fun... J.R. Oppenheimer Mario Savio

UK government Chief Scientific Officer Professor John Beddington comments on the developments at Fukushima nuclear plant. I hope he is corr...

So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers I had a look at this in the bookstore recently -- it is beautiful...

Readers of this blog have probably noticed that I regularly post about China and globalization . I've devoted much less space to Japa...

Yesterday, China's stock market cap ($3.21 trillion) exceeded Japan's ($3.20 trillion) slightly to become the world's second-lar...

It took the Japanese two decades to recover from their 80's-90's bubble. This Times article discusses the similarities and differenc...

The drawings below are by Kiuchi Nobuo, a Japanese soldier captured in Manchuria, who survived capitivity in the USSR. He was transported al...

This Times article describes the exodus of senior engineers from Japan to other Asian countries, in particular companies in Taiwan. Hsinchu...

Proponents of industrial policy should have a careful look at the chip industry in Japan for an example of how badly wrong things can turn o...

No Longer the "Lone" Superpower: Coming to Terms with China Johnson rightly focuses on the tensions building around the Taiwan str...