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Reference | EXPLAINER Feb 26, 2018

In Japan's Diet, is there such a thing as too much time for questions?

by Tomohiro Osaki

It may be hard to find a workplace more rife with inefficiency and inertia than the national Diet. After all, it's where the prime minister and other Cabinet ministers sacrifice their time to an extent almost unthinkable in other developed nations, even though constructive policy ...

Reference | EXPLAINER Feb 12, 2018

Japan's staff-heavy banks downsize and turn to technology for survival

by Alex K.T. Martin

These are tough times for banks. As the Bank of Japan's prolonged ultra-easy money policy weighs on earnings, the emergence of technology like artificial intelligence is transforming the mechanics of financing and threatening to replace thousands of roles with automated systems. The nation's major banks have ...