Should Japanese lawyers rest in peace? There is a notorious concept in the Japanese legal field called the jobutsu theory. It originated from a short reflective article with the weird title… 2020-09-14 Noriyuki Morimoto Real and fake hedge funds For a hedge fund to be a real hedge fund, it is essential to meet the criteria of hedging. Here, hedging must mean to hedge risk. Whatever the inve… 2020-08-31 Noriyuki Morimoto The essence of the Japanese trust At the time of its construction of a modern nation, Japan referred to German and French law to design its legal system, while the only exception was t… 2020-08-17 Noriyuki Morimoto The paradox of index investment The market index is the average price of securities traded on the market. The average price is the aggregate of the results of price fluctuations of i… 2020-08-03 Noriyuki Morimoto The appeal of buying a bad company with a good business in Japan Companies are acquired because they are worth buying. A good company is fully worth buying, so it can only be acquired at a price above its value, or … 2020-07-20 Noriyuki Morimoto The Achilles and tortoise paradox The impossibility of Achilles to catch up with the tortoise, or the arrow to reach its target, represents a well-known paradox in the history of philo… 2020-07-06 Noriyuki Morimoto Banking regulation as the culprit of economic crises No matter how many banks exist on the planet and seem to compete with each other, as they basically engage in the same business, they tend to make man… 2020-06-22 Noriyuki Morimoto The S-curve is the key of investment In Otemachi, a prime location in the center of Tokyo, the land price is extremely high, and so is the rent. Meanwhile in Jimbocho, a neighboring town … 2020-06-08 Noriyuki Morimoto The Three Rs of Human Resources The tasks of human resources can be summarized into three Rs: the first R is Recruit (attracting personnel), the second is Retain (keeping them), and … 2020-05-25 Noriyuki Morimoto The nonsense of “special consideration based on company rules” When companies decide how to treat people, they must be able to justify the treatment. People accept the treatment only because they have agreed on it… 2020-05-11 Noriyuki Morimoto «1…89101112…23»