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Takaichi’s Trump-Like War On Solar Will Kneecap The Economy

Don’t Heed Panic-Mongers On Japanese Interest Rates Or Yen

Takaichi Wasting Billions On Illusory Technological Magic Bullets, Part I

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MOF Currency Intervention To Support Yen Would Fail

Stagflation Creates Policy Dilemmas, Conflict Between Takaichi and BOJ

Tokyo, Seoul and DC Disagree On What $800 Billion Investment Pacts Say

The “Mussolini Corporatism” Behind Trump’s Demand For $800 Billion From Japan and Korea

Dialogue on Sanaenomics

Sanaenomics Ignores Voter Needs

Appeal for Financial Support

Are Hikes in Compensation Eaten Up by Taxes?

Low Pay For the Highly Skilled Starves Japan of Human Capital

How Did Japan Fall Behind in Creating Personal Wealth?

Nikkei Publishes An Op-Ed by Me on Trump Tariffs

Ishiba “Gives Away The Store” to Trump

The Myth of Japan’s Missing Millionaires? Part 1

Trump Official Confirms US Will Correct Mistakenly High Tariffs on Japan

Autos Excluded From Trump's Executive Order Lowering Tariffs To 15%

Tokyo Says: If We Don’t Put Anything in Writing, We Don’t Have to Fulfill Trump’s Demands

Ishiba Deal With Trump Provokes Storm Of Opposition In Diet

Two Big Losers In the Election: LDP and CDP

BBC Interviews Me On Economics Of Election

Toyota’s Blind Spot On BEVs

Polls Are Volatile in Upper House Race

Opposition Fumbles Politics Of Consumer Tax Cuts

Exports, Globalization, and The Road to Recovery:

China’s BYD Aiming to Seize Toyota’s Crown Via BEVs

Road to Recovery: Creative Destruction Vs. “Greenfield” Foreign Direct Investment

Dialogue With Economist Noah Smith, Part 1

Japan Still 196th In Inward FDI

"A tour de force..." Nikkei Recommends My Book

I’m Cited in Japan Times: Japan Should Unite With Others To Resist Trump Trade War

Parties Debate Cut in Consumption Tax Ahead of Election

Yomiuri Shimbun Review of My Book

Tokyo: No Trade Pact Unless Trump Relents

Trump Won’t Even Discuss Ending 25% Auto Tariffs In Talks with Tokyo

Japanese Government and Business Stiffen Resistance to Trump

Video Interview on TBS: Trump Trade War; Reviving Japan

Japanese Media Covering Message Of Hope In My Book

“Mar-a-Lago Accords” Not Guiding Trump

Video: Trump’s Trade War: The Economic Impact on the US, Japan, and the Rest

Trump Trade War Predicted To Decimate Japan’s GDP Growth Through 2029

Trump Can’t “Win” Trade War Without A Severe Recession

My Entrepreneurship Book Is Out In Japanese

Hurricane Trump Hits The Yen

Ishiba Handling of Nippon Steel Shows Tokyo’s “Placate Trump” Posture

Bump In Inflation Entirely Due to 9% Jump In Food and Energy

New York Times Cites Me On How Weak Yen Hampers GDP and Consumption

I’m Speaking In San Francisco (it will be live-streamed)

The Weak Yen Reflects Weak Japan

Trump Meets US Steel CEO

On NHK TV, I say Trump Won't Reverse Biden on Nippon Steel

Predictions Of Yen At ¥95 Per Dollar Are Based On False Logic

How Does The Dearth of PhDs Hinder Japanese Corporate Innovation

Nippon Steel: Nikkei Cites Me On Why Trump Is Very Unlikely To Reverse Biden

Video: Trump's Impact On Japan’s Economy

Appeal for Financial Support