For Julian Ryall's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japan may still face some serious economic problems in the months and years to come, but the way the government and the financial authorities have handled the economy in the last 12 months mean there is today a great deal more hope for a ...
Finland and Japan may be at opposite ends of the scale when it comes to the size of their populations, but the links between the two countries are very close, according to Finnish Ambassador Eero Salovaara. "There are only 5.2 million of us Finns, but ...
Tim Blackman emerged from the 24th session of the trial of a Japanese businessman feeling "a kind of pity" for the man accused of causing the death of his daughter, Lucie, nearly 3 1/2 years ago. Thursday's session at the Tokyo District Court, was the ...
With an apology for a radical -- even "shocking" -- approach to solving Japan's economic problems, British economist Andrew Smithers dismissed the strategies put forward by proponents of a supply-side driven recovery as well as those advocating fiscal stimulus measures, during a recent symposium ...
Japan needs to set up a "Ministry of Creativity" to think its way out of the economic slump it has endured for a decade, according to the world's leading authority in the field of creative and conceptual thinking. In Japan recently to give a lecture ...
Phil Green makes no bones about it: he's an optimist. President and CEO of Cable & Wireless IDC since August last year, the 52-year-old Australian says his company presently controls about 1 percent of the telecommunications market in Japan. Green spreads his hands wide: "That just ...
Japanese-Americans have made major contributions to U.S. society -- even in the face of racism and misguided government policy -- so it is fitting that when Arab-Americans and Muslims were targeted after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Japanese-Americans stood by them. Japanese-Americans' place in ...
Changes in Japan's telecommunications industry over the past two years have been far-reaching and important, but much remains to be done to achieve a truly free and transparent market, according to Lisa Suits, outgoing vice president of the public policy division of Cable & ...
WE ARE NIPPON: The World Cup in Japan, by Simon Moran. S.U. Press, 2002, 190 pp., 1,500 yen (paper) As anyone who was here will undoubtedly recall, things got a little raucous in Japan and South Korea last summer. But hosting a World Cup will ...
To mark half a century of diplomatic representation in Japan, the New Zealand Embassy has marked the installation of an elaborately carved "tomokanga" Maori entranceway. A tomokanga is a traditional gateway to a Maori "marae," or meeting area, similar to a torii at a Shinto ...
