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The European Central Bank (ECB) headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2026
Dutchman and Spaniard in two-horse race for ECB presidency
While no other candidate was proposed before Friday’s deadline, a surprise contender could yet appear, just like current ECB head Christine Lagarde did in 2019.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde speaks during a debate at European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, in February 2023.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 30, 2026
ECB’s Lagarde steps down, saying she can’t remain neutral on world events
The decision ends months of speculation about her future as Europe ?enters a ?period of rising economic volatility and divisive electoral politics.
China’s Baotou Rare Earth Industrial Development Zone in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the country’s only national-level development zone dedicated specifically to the rare-earths industry.
COMMENTARY / Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 29, 2026
China’s rare-earth success offers lessons in economic security
Japan and its partners must build alternatives without replicating Beijing’s state-directed model.
An attendee walks past signage for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 14.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
War, rates and a global economy that won’t break
Today’s nominally solid scenario depends on policymakers not making any major mistakes.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda addresses a news conference after the bank's policy meeting in Tokyo on Friday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 22, 2026
Ueda’s guarded stance highlights limits of BOJ’s policy shift
The BOJ’s rate increase of a quarter point to 1.25% was seen as a modest step and traders wanting a more forthright signal will be disappointed.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh addresses a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington on July 29.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2026
Central banks need to speak, even when they are wrong
Kevin Warsh has turned back the transparency revolution in central banking, refusing to commit to regular news conferences and has expressed disdain for “forward guidance.”
Unlike recent energy crises, today's geopolitical shock is destroying supply rather than rerouting it, exposing the limits of the standard policy toolkit.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 22, 2026
Why this energy shock is different
Governments can mitigate its impact on those most exposed, but only if fiscal and monetary policy work in concert.
The European Union will move one step closer on Tuesday to creating a digital euro when EU lawmakers hold a long-awaited vote on the virtual currency.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 23, 2026
EU looks to digital euro to cut reliance on U.S. payment technology
European officials often point to Washington’s 2025 sanctions against International Criminal Court judges to illustrate the grip of U.S. firms.
The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it needed to hold rates steady because “developments in the Middle East are contributing to a high level of uncertainty about the economic outlook.”
BUSINESS / Economy
May 2, 2026
The world’s central banks are wrestling with a gigantic problem
Surging inflation, an economic slowdown, and uncertainty over how long the energy shock will last has forced central banks to adjust.
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda meets with European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the Jackson Hole economic symposium in Moran, Wyoming, in August 2023.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 24, 2026
Rethinking how Japan chooses its central bank governor
The future challenge for Japan is therefore not to depoliticize central bank appointments completely, but to build institutions that make expertise visible.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is said to be considering stepping down early to deny euroskeptic leaders the chance to influence who follows in her role.
BUSINESS / Markets / ANALYSIS
Feb 27, 2026
Under pressure from populist politicians, central bankers face tricky trade-off
How can central banks defend their independence and their credibility without appearing political themselves?
Marine Le Pen arrives at court on Paris on Feb. 10.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 17, 2026
Le Pen’s shadow is falling on ECB job succession to Lagarde
In the race to succeed Christine Lagarde, the question of when leaders choose the next European Central Bank president is looming almost as large as who they pick.
U.S.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent brushed off fears of Europeans weaponizing bond sales at Davos, but his response hinted at unease over America’s reliance on foreign capital.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2026
After Davos, bond markets are wielding a new big stick
Many now agree with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s assertion at Davos that the postwar international rules-based order has suffered a “rupture,” not a transition.
The second Trump administration has challenged the European Union’s hard-won market indispensability and forced it into a defensive posture.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 7, 2025
Trump 2.0 diminishes European Union power
Despite the EU’s large consumer market, the political and economic union has failed to fully exercise its strengths since the start of the second Trump administration.
(Left) Bank of England Gov. Andrew Bailey, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde (second from left), Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda (third from left) and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pose for a picture during the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium in Moran, Wyoming, on Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 25, 2025
Central bankers fear being caught in Federal Reserve’s storm
Politically motivated attacks on the Fed could spill over to the rest of the world.
Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in Washington on June 24. The question of how to handle the fallout from White House decisions may loom large as Powell is set to speak on a panel with peers from the euro zone, Japan, South Korea and the U.K.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 30, 2025
Powell and Lagarde count cost of Trump’s turbulence
At the halfway point of 2025, global policy is almost paralyzed by the need to navigate risks posed both to inflation and growth in the wake of Trump’s actions.
The Federal Reserve building in Washington. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week he felt that the pre-pandemic years during which the Fed's rate hovered near zero for years and Europe delved into the exotic world of negative rates are gone for good.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 27, 2024
A global hunt for neutral rates to shape world finance costs
Policymakers are exploring whether the rates required to keep inflation in check and economies growing are higher now than the ultra-low ones before the pandemic.
Instead of entering its recent operating loss as negative retained earnings, the European Central Bank treated it as a positive asset on its balance sheet, which is being criticized as misleading.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2024
Central banks need to be more transparent about losses
The ECB, Fed and other central banks would do well to abandon financial machinations, work out recapitalization agreements and prepare for large losses.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 9, 2021
The end of free money
Rising inflation does not look to be a just a temporary problem, and supply bottlenecks are not the only cause.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2021
Changing the climate of financial regulation
Despite the growing costs of climate change, U.S. financial regulators have yet to show they are thinking creatively about potential solutions.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
Japan not immune to public backlash against data centers, experts say
An apartment resident displays a model of a data center currently in development next door in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture, in May.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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