The Significance of Family Allowances in Japan Until quite recently, it was usual practice for Japanese corporations to provide family allowances. An employee with a spouse would receive a spouse a… 2018-05-07 Noriyuki Morimoto Surume Finance in Japan Surume is dried squid that is commonly enjoyed as a snack to accompany alcohol in Japan. Its texture is like hard chewing gum, and it’s said that … 2018-04-23 Noriyuki Morimoto Rebuilding the Lost Myth in Japan Once upon a time, a farmer at his deathbed told his lazy sons that there was treasure hidden somewhere in his vineyard. After his death, the sons dug … 2018-04-10 Noriyuki Morimoto Cultural Differences between US and Japan as Seen in Mortgage Loans When you take out a mortgage with a fixed rate, you either gain or lose depending on the change in interest rates. You lose when interest rates go dow… 2018-03-26 Noriyuki Morimoto Japanese Mega Banks Don’t Understand Taste The Principles for an Effective Risk Appetite Framework, announced by the Financial Stability Board on November 2013, is a management framework that s… 2018-03-12 Noriyuki Morimoto The Origin of the Myth that Japanese Prefer Savings to Insurance Insurance companies are strictly defined as companies that run insurance businesses by regulation, so they cannot handle savings products that don… 2018-02-26 Noriyuki Morimoto Philosophers of Investment Should Reside in This Area in Tokyo Jimbocho is a district in central Tokyo. It is just north of Otemachi, a beautiful area with many high-rise office buildings facing the imperial palac… 2018-02-13 Noriyuki Morimoto A Price-less Rarity of a Book Books with historic value, an extremely small number of existing volumes, and very low chances of being found in used bookstores are classified as rar… 2018-01-29 Noriyuki Morimoto Cool Japan and Cool Regions Cool Japan is to create additional values unique to Japan. In the global economy, Japan has to be Cool Japan. In the same way, in the Japanese economy… 2018-01-15 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 «1…1415161718…23»