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Japan’s Insider Trading Culture
More than a year after the tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster that accompanied it, a Japanese parliamentary report has concluded that the catastrophic meltdown was “man made.” The ten-member investigatory commission contended that the incident could have been … Continue reading
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Tagged Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, insider trading, Japan, rajat gupta
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Foreigners Need Not Apply
In terms of diversity hiring, Japan is now just a bit better than America of the 1860s, when the song ‘No Irish Need Apply’ was first published. Last week, an article appeared in the New York Times that outlined the … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, economy, globalization, hiring, Japan, Japanese companies, Jobs, lifetime employment, students, study abroad
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Trade Off
A friend just directed me to a Financial Times article that had some harsh words for Japanese trade policy. The article, entitled “Truth Behind Japan’s Free and Open Market,” takes Hyundai as an example of a company that should have … Continue reading
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Tagged free trade, FTA, Honda, Hyundai, Japan, Korea, LG, Nissan, Samsung, Toyota, TPP, US
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Go West, Young Man
Living abroad strikes everyone just a little bit differently. I know Americans in Japan who will do any number of things when they get homesick — buy a Coke, listen to Springsteen, organize a football game. Me? I watch Westerns. … Continue reading
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Andy Devine, Brad Pitt, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Charles Bronson, Chief Dan George, Clint Eastwood, Dean Martin, Dodge City, Dustin Hoffman, Edmond O'Brien, Eli Wallach, Ernest Borgnine, Errol Flynn, film, Gary Cooper, Gene Hackman, Great Train Robbery, Gregory Peck, Hailee Steinfeld, Henry Fonda, High Noon, Howard Hawks, James Coburn, Jane Darwell, Japan, Jeff Bridges, Jimmy Stewart, John Carradine, John Ford, John Wayne, Josh Brolin, Karl Malden, Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Little Big Man, Matt Damon, Maureen O'Hara, Montgomery Clift, Morgan Freeman, movies, My Darling Clementine, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Newman, Red River, Ricky Nelson, Rio Bravo, Rio Grande, Robert Redford, Robert Vaughn, Seven Samurai, Stagecoach, Steve McQueen, Strother Martin, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, The Gunfighter, The Magnificent Seven, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, True Grit, Unforgiven, Vera Miles, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond, Westerns, William Holden, Woody Strode, Yul Brynner
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Infamous No More?
As these words are posted [I've scheduled it in advance], it will be precisely 12:50 EST on December 7th, 2011 — 70 years to the minute since the moment most reports claim the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. I actually have … Continue reading
The Nail That Sticks Out
Japan’s getting some bad press at the moment, and I’m not all that surprised. The Olympus debacle is center stage in the mass media as the Nikkei plummets; nobody’s quite sure what to make of the situation as Michael Woodford, … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, culture, Google, Japan, job hunting, Ken Mogi, Nikkei, Olympus, rebel, unity, Woodford
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Tokyo Photos [4]
This is the interior of one the Ikegami Line trains that run through my neighborhood. I love how shiny and spotless they are, even though some of them have been in service since the late 1980s. If you’re going to … Continue reading
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership, or TPP, is a free trade initiative that several countries — including Japan — are now in talks to join. I’ve tried not to discuss politics and economics on this blog, but this issue has … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, China, Doha Round, free trade agreement, FTA, Japan, Korea, TPP, trade, US
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Soft Power Play
Soft power is a rather vague term. Its varieties are so numerous that most attempts to define the term end up doing so by stating what it is not – hard power. However, pop culture may be the most referenced form … Continue reading
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Tagged anime, Apple, Haruki Murakami, iPhone, Japan, literature, manga, Nobel Prize, Pokemon, pop culture, soft power, Toyota
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The Japanese Tradition: Sushi
Hopefully you all saw my recent post on a series of web videos on the “Japanese tradition” and caught the first video I shared, about the art of apologizing. Next up, we have the video on sushi. Despite what the … Continue reading
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Tagged chopsticks, Japan, Japanese food, Japanese Tradition, sushi, tradition
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