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Trump Official Confirms US Will Correct Mistakenly High Tariffs on Japan
I Am Cited By New York Times About Tariff Impact on Japan
Autos Excluded From Trump's Executive Order Lowering Tariffs To 15%
Affects Europe and Korea automakers as well
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Tokyo Says: If We Don’t Put Anything in Writing, We Don’t Have to Fulfill Trump’s Demands
Will Trump Issue Executive Order Lowering Tariffs To 15% by Friday?
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Japan’s Minimum Wage Miracle
Korea Has Surpassed Japan in Per Capita GDP
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How Trump's Victory Will Impact Japan
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Yen Going to ¥170/$?
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The Houthis, A Disappointing Wage Report, and the Tumbling Yen
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Market Misreads Services Inflation And the BOJ
Ishiba Deal With Trump Provokes Storm Of Opposition In Diet
Bessent Threatens To Lift Tariffs Again If Trump Unhappy With Tokyo
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Two Big Losers In the Election: LDP and CDP
LDP Refused to See Message In Last Year’s Lower House Loss; CDP Could Not Exploit LDP Weakness
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BBC Interviews Me On Economics Of Election
Inflation, The Yen, Consumption Tax, Aging, Productivity
Toyota’s Blind Spot On BEVs
Part 2 of BYD Aiming to Seize Toyota’s Crown
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Polls Are Volatile in Upper House Race
Japan-US Brinksmanship in Trade Talks; Consumption Tax Debate
Opposition Fumbles Politics Of Consumer Tax Cuts
Ishiba Cries Wolf (i.e., Greece) on Government Debt
Exports, Globalization, and The Road to Recovery:
Dialogue between Richard Katz and Noah Smith, Part 3
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