Mali and the European Union: Stability is in the Interest of Africa and Europe Boutros Hussein and Walter Sebastian Modern Tokyo Times The country of Mali needs urgent economic input into the nation in order to start the process of restructuring areas plagued by international jihadists, to develop the infrastructure and to strengthen the central [...]
Bank of Japan and Kuroda: Soros Raises Doubts about the Sliding Yen Hiroshi Saito and Walter Sebastian Modern Tokyo Times Under the new Governor of the Bank of Japan a new policy is being ushered in whereby many powerful individuals are raising alarm by the actions of Haruhiko Kuroda. This applies to the target [...]
China and Australia Sign a Currency Pact: America and Japan have Similar Agreements Walter Sebastian and Hiroshi Saito Modern Tokyo Times The American dollar and Japanese yen trade directly with the currency of China because of respective agreements. Australia is now following a similar path because an agreement was etched out between this nation and [...]
Germany and France Hit by Negative Economic News: Eurozone Crisis Joachim de Villiers and Walter Sebastian Modern Tokyo Times The eurozone will come under further pressure after it was announced that the economy of Germany was virtually stagnant. Germany remains to be the engine of Europe but storm clouds are gathering for this nation because [...]
Mozambique is Attracting Citizens from Portugal: EU Economic Malaise Walter Sebastian and Pierre Leblanc Modern Tokyo Times The economic crisis throughout the eurozone and the European Union is causing widespread despair in the worse hit nations. Currently Cyprus, Greece and Spain continue to hog the negative headlines but other nations like Portugal have also [...]
Eurozone and EU Blighted by High Unemployment: Is Japan a Social Model? Pierre Leblance and Jay Doggett Modern Tokyo Times The eurozone and the European Union (EU) continue to go from one crisis to another and clearly the tunnel is long and dark for many citizens throughout the entire community. Latest figures state that 12% [...]
Bank of Japan: New Approach under Kuroda but Shirakawa Warns of No Quick Fix Joachim de Villiers and Jay Doggett Modern Tokyo Times The Bank of Japan is witnessing a change of the guard if the media is to be believed because the new Governor is insisting that a 2% inflation target within the next [...]
France, Germany and Japan all Announce Negative Economic News Walter Sebastian and Lee Jay Walker Modern Tokyo Times Economic data released by France, Germany and Japan all announced negative performances related to the last three months of 2012. This once more underlies the need to restore economic order because the negativity of the current global [...]
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Japan Business News: Shinzo Abe, Economic Revitalization, Sony, Toshiba and Toyota Kanako Itamae and Pierre Leblanc Modern Tokyo Times Shinzo Abe, the newly elected Prime Minister of Japan, is intent on restructuring the economy in order to kick start 2013. Therefore, he is hoping that the newly created headquarters for economic revival will be a [...]
Japan entering a mild recession and export growth weak in China: Enigma of Japan Hiroshi Saito and Pierre Leblanc Modern Tokyo Times Economic data from the powerhouses of China and Japan did little to raise the spirits during the final month of the year in 2012. On the contrary, data released by both nations highlight [...]
Japan announces biggest trade deficit since records began in 1979 Joachim de Villiers and Hiroshi Saito Modern Tokyo Times In 1979 Japan began to take economic records related to trade and the economic well-being of this nation. Since this period the economic vitality of this nation was scrutinized to a much greater degree and economic [...]
Unemployment continues to grow in Greece: young jobless rate is atrocious Boutros Hussein and Joachim de Villiers Modern Tokyo Times The nation of Greece is often in the news for all the wrong reasons because of the ongoing economic crisis in this nation. Sadly more negative news was announced because the unemployment rate reached a [...]
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