Caveat Emptor

18/11/2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

Business Week’s 2014 ranking of MBA programs makes the magazine surveyors a laughing stock. It takes little a […]

A Connected Walk in the Park

02/09/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Wednesday, September 10, is World Suicide Prevention Day. This year’s theme is ‘Suicide Prevention: One World […]

15/05/2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Yesterday I listened to Paul Sheard, Chief Global Economist and Head of Global Economics and Research for Stan […]

08/05/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

At 35.65% Japan has a higher taxation rate than any other country in the world, except the United States (40%) […]

15/01/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Yesterday I joined a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan at which three leading Japan […]

16/12/2013.Reading time 2 minutes.

I love scuba diving. There is something special about donning the gear to give you the ability to mimic, fleet […]

11/08/2013.Reading time 4 minutes.

In an earlier blog article, I posted a press interview of three legendary athletes in track and field: Carl Le […]

17/06/2013.Reading time 5 minutes.

Masayuki Kichikawa (Bank of America Merrill Lynch), Yuichi Kodama (Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance) and Jesper Kol […]

21/05/2013.Reading time 15 minutes.

For a long time, too long a time, I thought that cruising was a snooty affair. I journeyed around the world bu […]

11/05/2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

Baz Luhrmann’s new version of The Great Gatsby premiered in Seattle yesterday and I was first in line to see i […]