Peter Tasker

“I M Fired” – How the Asian Financial Crisis Helped Asia and Harmed the West

By Peter Tasker | June 30, 2017 | Comment (2)

The ensuing collapse in the West’s financial credibility was equivalent to the Iraq War’s effect on its strategic credibility

By Peter Tasker | July 30, 2016 | Comment (0)

My 2003 novel Dragon Dance has just been re-issued in digital form at the extraordinary bargain price of $3.91.

By Peter Tasker | December 2, 2015 | Comment (0)

The UK and France added a few extra percent to their GDPs by including drug-dealing, prostitution and smuggling.

By Peter Tasker | October 1, 2015 | Comment (0)

Fear of shortages may be hard-wired in the human brain, leading us to worry about threats that are fading and downplay those that loom large.

By Peter Tasker | May 20, 2015 | Comment (0)

Koizumi enacted a Japanese equivalent of the “Willy Brandt moment” at the Marco Polo bridge

By Peter Tasker | April 1, 2015 | Comment (0)

Japan now finds itself in a deeply uncomfortable position… As Hamlet might have put it, to join or not to join, that is the question.

By Peter Tasker | December 16, 2014 | Comment (0)

Asakusa, a downtown area fast becoming Tokyo’s new hipster central, is now a destination for foreign backpackers.

By Peter Tasker | June 11, 2014 | Comment (1)

Countries do not always act in their own best interests, as historian Barbara Tuchman established in “The March of Folly”

By Peter Tasker | May 1, 2014 | Comment (0)

The rhetoric from Congress would be blood-curdling. There might even be a repeat of the quotas and sanctions imposed on Japan in the 1980s.

By Peter Tasker | April 8, 2014 | Comment (0)

Herr Schmidt was quite mistaken in his view that Japan is the Billy No Mates of Asia