Posted in Uncategorized, tagged countries, economics, forum, gender gap, global, Iceland, Japan, ranking, YouTube on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few days ago, the World Economic Forum officially published its 2009 Global Gender Gap Report which gives insight into the equality divides between women and men in 134 countries around the world. The top 10 are:
Iceland
Finland
Norway
Sweden
N. Zealand
S. Africa
Denmark
Ireland
Philippines
Lesotho
The top 4 are Nordic countries, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economics, fish, Japan, sushi, Tsukiji, sashimi, tuna, maguro, bluefin on October 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A recent feature article in The Mainichi Daily News titled The Maguroeconomics of tuna, the grand champion of fish cuisine describes the tuna, or maguro, as the most popular fish in Japan especially when eaten as sashimi. See also my previous post on the book titled The Sushi Economy, about the economics of tuna and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economics, Japan, money on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bank of Japan says it’s keeping interest rates the same. Japan’s central bank made a unanimous decision at a two-day policy board meeting to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coins, currency, economics, Japan, money, yen on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to be a millionnaire, live in Japan. Yes, Tokyo is an expensive city, but the currency will make you feel rich . The current exchange rate is about 100 yen = 1 US$, so simply remove the last two 0s for easy conversion. Below is a picture of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economics, globalization, Japan, Tokyo on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An interview with Atsushi Saito, head of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, warns of an impeding crisis in the Japanese economy from an article published on May 1, 2008 in Canadian ReportonBusiness.com. The Japanese economy is the world’s second largest economy, but is in danger of bankruptcy because of its huge national debt, but more importantly [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged economics, fish, food, globalization, Japan, sushi, Tokyo, Tsukiji on February 18, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Based on a referral from a friend, I picked up the book titled “The Sushi Economy” by Sasha Issenberg, published on May 2007 (so pretty new book). This book talks about three things that I am most personally interested these days: Globalization, Economics and Sushi. Well, I accepted my international assignment to [...]
