September 2023: Best Content on Japan

Reads

• Investing.com - The Japanese yen risks falling to USD/JPY = 150. Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki might be looking to raise interest rates soon.

• Richard Katz
  writes about the less-known story that Chinese officials went to Japan after Mao Zedong’s reign to learn how to improve their collapsing economy:

Xi Jinping Seeks To Ban “Socialism with Japanese and Singaporean characteristics,” Part I

• Mountains of Wisdom
  here bringing you concepts, life advice, and hiking guides straight from the mountains of Japan:

  The Humble Cone and its Ancient Japanese Equivalent

Podcasts

• I’m the guest at Local Japan Podcast to talk about the Japanese real-estate landscape. There are some really good insights for anyone interested in housing in Japan, so be sure to listen here:

#43 How to Find Value in Real Estate and Companies in Japan

Videos

• A very entertaining video from my favorite Japan YouTuber Japanalysis on this year’s biggest corporate scandal in Japan:

• Spectacles releases a new banger video about Japan can withstand earthquakes that would decimate other nations:

• I talk with

  RetireJapan Zemi
  about what stocks to buy in Japan, and why Nintendo is still so interesting: