Author: Aiko Fujita
Aiko Fujita
Aiko covers Japan's corporate governance reforms, its aging-economy challenges, and the slow but real return of foreign investment to Tokyo's markets. Raised in Osaka, she started her career at a domestic business paper before moving into English-language reporting to reach a wider audience. Her interviews are known for a patience that gets sources to say more than they planned to. Outside work, she practices calligraphy and says the discipline it demands isn't so different from editing a tight paragraph.
NAGOYA, Japan, Sept 18 — Japan is preparing to welcome thousands of athletes and spectators for the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, but enthusiasm for the event remains subdued in some parts of the country just a day before the opening ceremony. The Games are providing Japan with an opportunity to experience the atmosphere of a major international sporting event with spectators in the stands, five years after the Tokyo Olympics were conducted largely without fans because of COVID-19 restrictions. Yet in Nagoya, the host city, awareness among some residents appeared limited on Friday. “I have no real idea about these…
TOKYO [Sept 9]: The yen’s rise to a seven-month high is putting renewed focus on one of the most widely used strategies in global finance: the yen carry trade. The strategy has allowed investors for years to borrow Japanese currency at relatively low interest rates and deploy the funds into assets denominated in currencies offering higher returns. But expectations that the Bank of Japan could accelerate interest-rate increases, potentially as soon as its meeting next week, are weakening the appeal of the trade. Here is how the yen carry trade works, why it became so important to international investors and…
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