For Richard Solomon's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
“How lucky I am to be here, right now,” is something Tom Kelley often tells himself. The D4V chairman (Design for Ventures) and IDEO partner could be sitting in any one of IDEO’s nine global offices, but the Tokyo studio is his favorite.
Japan is running out of time. Where will migrants come from when the international competition for Asian workers heats up?
Other central banks will likely release fresh rounds of monetary easing, but Japan's central bank is out of ammunition.
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.
