For Richard Solomon's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
To end people's fears that the public pension won't support them in retirement, the government must place comprehensive social security reform at the top of the political agenda.
Conductor Zubin Mehta once told Robert Ryker that Mehta's two orchestras, the Montreal Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, had the world's two finest tuba players. Ryker, then 22 years old, was one of them. It was a rare compliment for any musician, most ...
Poorly run companies are under international and domestic pressure to adopt global standards of capitalism.
Islandology is spreading globally as other nations recognize the world is a single closed ecosystem.
More Japanese women are working, but many still professionally underachieve.
Tokyo will have to invest more energy in its long-standing security partnership with Washington.
Rising workforce mobility will have many unintended consequences.
The nation's labor force is shrinking, educated and dedicated — attributes that match the needs of a knowledge-based economy
The postwar system that built Japan's formidable middle class is faltering. A two-tiered employment system is needed.
Governments are only now waking up to the need to regulate ICOs and their related tokens.
