Tag: economy

In case you haven't been paying attention, the Japanese yen has been falling like a stone compared to the U.S. ...

Economic history was made, as Japan raised interest rates for the first time in years. What does it mean for ...

A couple days ago, I was feeling sore after hitting the gym, so I decided to swing by my favorite ...

Japan is buzzing this week about inflation, with many companies announcing price increases on everyday products. How is inflation in ...

Japan's "cashless payment wars" are taking over. (Image source.) Japan is often a puzzling place, presenting two conflicting images at ...

There are three things unavoidable things in life: death, taxes, and the agony of our favorite anime series not getting ...

One of the best things about visiting or living in Japan are the convenience stores, those wonderful bright islands of ...

Want To Know How Taxes in Japan Work? I'll Tell You! Every once in a while I get random questions ...

Without a doubt, one of the best things about living in Japan is the excellent service you receive on a ...

Although Japan's economy is limping along with little if any real growth, its official unemployment rate is an enviably low ...

The currency of Japan is the yen, a word that means "circle." (The Chinese yuan and Korean won both mean ...

Japan is currently experiencing a wave early retirements as dozens of teachers, police officers and other public servants move their ...

If you follow news in Japan at all, you might have seen that Prime Minister Abe has announced a target ...

Before I started J-List in 1996, I had a brief career as a public employee, working in the local City ...

The other day I caught an in-depth Japanese news show on the economic crisis in Spain, which was interesting because ...

Running an international anime company for the past 16 years has been interesting, and I've learned a lot about both ...

Recently J-List hired a new Japanese employee to oversee the shipping of packages, and on her first day the entire ...

Recently I wrote about some core differences in the way capitalism functions in Japan, for example how the distributors J-List ...

There's a big change in store for the J-List crew this summer: the impending opening of a Costco about ten ...

Japan is a unique place, and the economic forces that cause this kind of business or that to spring up ...

The other day I called the hotel I usually stay at whenever I go to Tokyo -- Hotel Mets Shibuya, ...

Sometimes Japan seems to be a terribly dysfunctional place. Changing leaders every few months and building the Panama Canal worth ...

For the past fifteen years, Japan has been fighting against the spectre of defure or deflation, in which prices decline ...

If you walk around San Diego and happen to see some Japanese yen coins on the ground, I might have ...