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Appearance on the BBC’s Newsnight Program
The BBC has followed up my recent article in the New York Times. Last Thursday Gillian Tett, a top editor at the Financial Times, joined me for a discussion of the Japanese economy with Emily Maitlis on the BBC’s Newsnight … Continue reading
Japan’s “Lost Decades”: The Sophistry Continues
My article in today’s New York Times Sunday Review has been generating heat as well as light. An article I have written on Japan for the January 8 New York Times Sunday Review went live at the nytimes.com website yesterday … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
Tagged apple iphone, grabow, japan, mobile phones, nytimes, sunday review, togetrichisglorious
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An Open Letter to Professor Edward J. Lincoln
The letter below, to the Clinton administration’s chief Japan economist, is self-explanatory. Dear Ed: Having heard nothing from you over the summer despite several private attempts to make contact, I must now press publicly for an answer. As you know, … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Press
Tagged debate, ed lincoln, edward j lincoln, electricity output, imf, japan, lost decades, world bank
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An invitation, some surprising facts, and two elusive experts
For thirteen years now I have been trying to organize a public debate on what really happened to the Japanese economy. The effort continues. The facts below have convinced at least one top American economic thinker that a debate is … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Japan, Manufacturing, Press, Trade
Tagged debate, edward j lincoln, japan, lost decades, robert alan feldman
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Earthquake: Interview on Thom Hartmann’s Big Picture
Thom Hartmann interviewed me on his show The Big Picture last week. (Thom is one of the most astute commentators in the American media and author of several great books.)
Posted in Global economy, Great East Japan Earthquake, Japan, Manufacturing, Trade
Tagged fukushima, japan, thom hartmann, tokyo
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The New York Times on Japan: Continuing fallout
Expert observers Holstein, Fallows, and Baker express their dismay at the Times’s miscues. I am not alone in challenging the New York Times’s recent account of a “disheartened” Japan. William J. Holstein, former president of the Overseas Press Club of America … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Press
Tagged dean baker, deflation, disheartened, good deflation, japan, japanese economy, william holstein
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More nonsense from the New York Times on Japan’s “lost decades”
The Times says Japan is “disheartened.” It hasn’t looked at Japan’s trade figures — or America’s. The New York Times yesterday carried a major article headlined “Japan Goes from Dynamic to Disheartened.” Rarely has the truth of the Japanese economy … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Press
Tagged disheartened, japan, japanese gdp, mark skousen, martin fackler, naka-dori, new york times, roppongi hills, tokyo midtown, vuitton, yen
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Edwin Reischauer: An ambassador who lied TO his country
John Kennedy’s ambassador to Japan is the subject of a new biography. Unfortunately, as I point out in this review (which was first published in the June 2010 issue of the American Conservative), the author’s agenda has little to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, History, Japan
Tagged cartel, detroit, galbraith, harvard, japan, mercantilism, packard, reischauer, renault, wanted: an asian policy
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Myths of the Japanese economy
This is a longer version of an article I have just published in the journal of the Overseas Press Club of America. Former Tokyo correspondents held a reunion at the Overseas Press Club in New York in March at which … Continue reading
Posted in Japan, Press
Tagged consumers, deflation, eugenic protection act, good deflation, japan, lifetime employment, opc, overseas press club
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How the press stabbed Detroit in the back
In a new article for CounterPunch, I show that, by failing to blow the whistle on protectionism in key foreign markets, the American press shares blame for Detroit’s implosion. For decades East Asian competition has played a controversial role in … Continue reading