Price of a Japanese gourd surging by 6000 times “Seibei and the gourd” is a short story written by Shiga Naoya in 1913. The protagonist of this story is Seibei, a 12-year-old elementary school stude… 2018-12-17 Noriyuki Morimoto Keynes in 13th Century Japan One autumn night in 13th century Japan, a samurai named Aoto Fujitsuna was crossing a river when he dropped about 10 sen worth of coins. Fujitsuna sum… 2018-12-03 Noriyuki Morimoto A Sad Little Tale in Pre-War Japan Denji Kuroshima is a now-forgotten writer who died during World War II. One of his notable short stories is The Two-Cent Coin (1925), a simple story i… 2017-12-18 Noriyuki Morimoto Learning Investment Philosophy from Basho Matsuo Basho’s famous haiku is about a small unidentified sound of water: Old pond ? frogs jumped in ? sound of water. It is unknown whether… 2017-06-05 Noriyuki Morimoto Japanese Banks and the 1-Yen Search After service hours, branches of Japanese banks start matching the balance of money inflows and outflows that happened over the day. This is an extrem… 2016-03-28 Noriyuki Morimoto
