Opinion | Why Japan is losing sleep over nightmare of a Trump re-election

Trump is all but certain to be the Republican nominee in the November election versus US President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party standard-bearer. Trump is already telegraphing that a Trump 2.0 White House would make his previous tenure seem like a minor inconvenience for Beijing. Japan would feel these shock waves early and often as … Read more

Japan’s crazy 1980s bubble a dim memory as Nikkei hits record high

As Japanese shares finally reclaim past peaks it harks back to a time when everyone in the country seemed to be a stock market millionaire – a Tokyo car park was worth more than New York’s Central Park and the future looked like one endless party. It is difficult now, after three long decades of … Read more