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Putting wi-fi on the summit of Mount Fuji is the symbolic start of a long process of de-mystification
Japan
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Yet successful conservative politicians are always empiricists, not idealists…
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Joey “Pepe” Smith is a great raconteur with a boatload of fascinating stories, some of which may even be true.
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The role model is Yuichiro Miura, who reached the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 80
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Koizumi enacted a Japanese equivalent of the “Willy Brandt moment” at the Marco Polo bridge
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This goes a long way to explaining the remarkable fall in the suicide rate over the past several years, which has reversed nearly all of the sharp increase of the late 1990s.
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Japanese bureaucracies, like others elsewhere, react to the prospect of transparency like a vampire reacts to the coming of daylight.
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Asakusa, a downtown area fast becoming Tokyo’s new hipster central, is now a destination for foreign backpackers.
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Companies will lobby for less restrictions on immigrants. All such changes will work to dilute the corporate monoculture.
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Google has a market capitalization of $380 billion and employs 40,000 people. Toyota is worth $32 billion and employs 340,000.