2023, August Archives
【#1066】Japan Should Move to Arms Aid to Ukraine
August 28, 2023 Japan’s self-imposed restrictions, such as the former Three Principles on Arms Exports and their revised version known as Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment and Tech...
August 28, 2023 China has announced an import ban on seafood from Japan. One month ago, I proposed Japan to take countermeasures to China’s blanket inspections of Japanese seafood in this Speaking...
August 21, 2023 China's financial sector is shaking as a major nonbank trust company has become insolvent. The Xi Jinping government has no means to prevent the crisis from escalating. In the wors...
【#1063】Respond to Spirits Honored at Yasukuni Shrine
August 7, 2023 Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited South Korea for two days from May 7. According to media reports, he and his wife Yuko arrived at a South Korean air force base in Seoul...
【#1062】BOJ Decision to Make Monetary Policy Flexible Was Too Early
August 7, 2023 At its Monetary Policy Meeting on July 27-28, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) decided to immediately make flexible its yield curve control (YCC) as a means of large-scale monetary easing, w...
【#1061】Do Not Overreact to China’s Gallium Export Controls
August 7, 2023 China is deploying countermeasures over semiconductors, which are the main battleground of the US-China confrontation. After banning the procurement of products from Micron Technolo...
【#1060】Is BOJ Encouraging Speculative Trading in Government Bonds?
July 31, 2023 The Bank of Japan (BOJ) effectively raised the upper limit of its long-term interest rate to 1% at its monetary policy meeting on July 28th. Governor Kazuo Ueda, who took office in A...