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Category: Business and the Economy ビジネスと経済

  • Central Pacific Bank’s aggravation / セントラル・パシフィック・バンクの改悪

    Central Pacific Bank’s aggravation / セントラル・パシフィック・バンクの改悪

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 In the mailbox beneath my apartment room, I found a letter from Central Pacific Bank, a Hawaiian bank I’ve kept my account for almost 15 years, saying that it had changed the policy for customers with Non-Resident Alien (NRA). According to the new policy effective April 1 this year, the bank will deduct $20…

  • Revolution with Revolut / Ｒｅｖｏｌｕｔでレボリューション

    Revolution with Revolut / Ｒｅｖｏｌｕｔでレボリューション

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 I live in Japan. I have bank accounts in Japan to get a monthly income and make regular payments. Besides, I have bank accounts in the United States and Hong Kong to put some of my money into different banks in different places with different currencies to minimize the risk. I manage my assets…

  • Changes of the world from COVID-19 / アフターコロナでどう変わる？

    Changes of the world from COVID-19 / アフターコロナでどう変わる？

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 COVID-19 is dreadfully spreading throughout the world, hospitalizing more than 3,100,000 people and taking the lives of more than 200,000 patients as of April 29, according to Johns Hopkins University. It is no exceptions here in Tokyo. The virus is forcing all people in the world to change their lifestyles. Many have been grounded…

  • Prelude to WWIII / 第三次世界大戦の序章

    Prelude to WWIII / 第三次世界大戦の序章

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 The second year of the Reiwa period began with a nightmare. More precisely, at the beginning of the year, nobody could predict what would be going on just two months later. I am talking about what the entire world is fighting against—COVID-19. The coronavirus outbreak has been an urgent global issue. It was just…

  • The end of globalisation / グローバル化の終わり

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 When I started my career in the late 1990s, my employer encouraged us to have a global mind to cope with Japan’s recession so-called “the lost decade”. By 2000, the words “global” and “globalisation” were used as the keywords — and sometimes buzzwords — for surviving the upcoming new millennium, followed by the dot-com…

  • ITILv3 Foundation

    I’ve got a certificate that I’ve passed the ITILv3 Foundation I had taken last December!この前受けた英語版ＩＴＩＬｖ３　Ｆｏｕｎｄａｔｉｏｎが受かってました！

  • What will Obama do for Japan?

    This afternoon media announced that Barack Obama had made history. He’s going to be the first Black US President in American history, as well as the President from the Democratic Party which has not sent the President for eight years. Whichever will become the next US President, Obama or McCain, as a Japanese citizen our…

  • US presidential election has begun / 米国大統領選

    日本文が後ろに続きます。 Now people are lining up to vote for America’s next presidential candidate in every state. If Barack Obama wins, he will be the first African-American US President. If John McCain wins, Sarah Palin will be the first female US Vice President. I can’t poll because I don’t have US citizenships, but it’s my big…

  • Where will America go?

    America’s recession seems to begin. US stocks are falling down every day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell from $13,500 in December 2007 to less than $12,000 right now, and the NASDAQ Composite was at around 2,700 in the end of December but now at about 2,300. For these five weeks, I’ve LOST more than…