Hopefully some decent memes too. Because the increasingly dark mornings this time of year, and lack of sunlight, are no fun
The VP debate tonight may be theatre but looking forward to waking tomorrow morning in Europe to clips of Walz eviscerating Vance
indeed, that article was a bit of a gut punch first thing this morning
Also wonder whether thereās been a structural shift in attitudes towards car ownership. My personal experience may not be representative of overall trends, but feel as if I thereās been an uptick in gen z/ millennials putting off getting a drivers license
European carmakers are the new widowmaker trade, now that chinese stocks are allegedly āfixedā
So the question to ask may not be, what does Ishiba mean for JPY rates, but what does Ishiba mean for Japanese pop culture?
Japanese equity markets may have fallen sharply following the unexpected win of Ishiba on Friday, but new PM shares some interesting hobbies recognisable to many a middle-aged dad: Namely, assembling plastic miniature models of trains and planes www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Shigeru Ishiba is often referred to in Japanese media as an "otaku", or someone obsessive about the mundane.
Hobby bordering on the obsessive- "Whenever an American ambassador, minister, or fleet commander comes to Japan, I find out what ship he was on and leave that (plastic model) with him. Then he would say, 'That's the ship I was on,' and it would make him really happyā (from linked article)
Japanese equity markets may have fallen sharply following the unexpected win of Ishiba on Friday, but new PM shares some interesting hobbies recognisable to many a middle-aged dad: Namely, assembling plastic miniature models of trains and planes www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Shigeru Ishiba is often referred to in Japanese media as an "otaku", or someone obsessive about the mundane.