Naoyuki's OPINION Columns (Download)
"My Plume, My Spirit"(2001/3)"A Medieval Specter Haunting Today's Japan"(2001/2)
"Stock Index Funds and Sogo Shosha"(2001/1)
"Livelier Investment Holds the Key to Japan's Revival"(2000/11-12)
"Companies and Morals, Groups and Individuals"(2000/10)
"Meeting Global Standards Starts at Home"(2000/9)
"Will Management by Global Standards Toughen Japanese Companies?" (2000/8)
"The Riddle of Japan s Vanishing External Surplus"(2000/7)
"Time to Change Economic Course"(2000/6)
"Traders and Cross-Cultural Interaction"(2000/5)
"Three Proposals for Educational Reform"(2000/4)
"Globalization and the Roots of Japanese Culture"(2000/1)
"The Baby-Boom Generation: Japan's Downfall or Salvation? " (99/9)
"AreSogo Shosha Obsolete?" (99/8)
Are Japanese Employees "Hidden Liabilities"? (99/7)
The Dual Structure of Japan's Economy and Competitive Power (99/6)
How Do You Measure a Company's Size? (99/5)
Who Will Feed Japan's Bedridden in the Twenty-first Century? (99/4)
Japanese-style Restructuring: Contraction and Expansion (99/3)
The Case for Constructive Optimism (99/2)
Will a Strong Leader Emerge from Japan's Empty Center? (99/11-12)
New Corporate Business Operations Can Put Japan Back on Its Feet (99/10)
Excess Capacity and Corporate Balance Sheets (99/1)
The Uses of Degradation: Rethinking the Writer Sakaguchi Ango (98/9)
The Discussion of Induced Inflation Needs to Go Further (98/8)
Learning to Adapt to Globalization from Our Forebears (98/7)
A Dose of Realism about Japan's Place in the World (98/6)
Foreign Reinforcements to Fight Japan's Infirmity? (98/5)
Catching Up with Surplus Capacity: The Key to a Recovery (98/4)
"Adult Children" in France and Japan (98/3)
Why Aren't Asian Exports Growing? (98/2)
Let's Just Try to Survive the Recession (98/11-12)
Important Points for Corporate Information Analysis (98/10)
Points of Light in the Deepening Economic Gloom (98/1)
U.S. Boom on Shaky Foundation (97/9)
The Difficulties of Fiscal Reform Past and Present (97/8)
Corporate Governance and Company Culture (97/7)
France's Election and "Social Europe" (97/6)
The role of information analysis in a zero-sum era (97/5)
Is the market economy almighty ? (97/4)
The Yen Depreciation Brings Japanese Economy a Resp (97/2)
Corporate Teamwork for the Twenty-first Century (97/11-12)
What to Do About the Ailing Economy? (97/10)
Japanese Economy in Need of Private Investment (97/1)
Hong Kong's Economy; As a Part of The Chinese Economy (96/9)
Challenges to sustained growth of Asian economy (96/8)
The challenges of increasing economic globalization (96/7)
Going back to the sources of the Japanese economic system (96/6)
The trading company, information and the role of the research department (96/5)