J- Links of Interest - Week 3; 2022

Articles

nikkei business 210423 (hermannsimon.com)

Interest in anime and K-pop drive boom in Korean and Japanese degrees | Modern languages and linguistics | The Guardian

Japan’s Coming Wave of Reform (harvard.edu)

Yen's lost decades: Japanese buying power sinks to near 50-year low - Nikkei Asia

Has Sony become the entertainment group it always wanted to be? | Financial Times (ft.com)

Sony's lack of ecosystem poses an existential threat - Nikkei Asia

Japanese companies want to win back their battery-making edge | The Economist

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises - HBS Working Knowledge

Analysis

The Myth of Lost Decades: GDP Growth Orthodoxy and Japan — The Zurich Globalist

Videos

Small companies: True heroes of Japanese industry (1988) part A - YouTube

Small companies: True heroes of Japanese industry (1988) part B - YouTube

Podcast

Episode 361 – Abe, Part 1 – Isaac Meyer

Episode 362 – Abe, Part 2 – Isaac Meyer

Episode 363 – Abe, Part 3 – Isaac Meyer

Episode 364 – Abe, Part 4 – Isaac Meyer