Author: Akira Kojima, JCER and GRIPS, Tokyo

Japan has faced a number of ‘D’ challenges throughout 2010 that will be increasingly difficult to handle in 2011 unless they are addressed properly and quickly. Time is not by any means a friend in this.

The ‘D’ challenges that Japan currently faces include Deflation, De-population or Demographic changes, public Deficit and Debt, Dilution of the stock market, De-leveraging, Dollar Depreciation, Defense and DPJ (Democratic Party of Japan) governance. Read more…