Japan’s GDP Plunges 27.8%, Begging Question Who Should Be Responsible?

Yasutoshi Nishimura, acting as a special representative of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, visits the ... [+] Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender in Tokyo, Japan, on August 15, 2016. Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg If there’s any Tokyo job lost in translation these days, it’s Yasutoshi Nishimura’s. He is Japan’s minister of “economic revitalization,” a contraction in terms as gr

[allezvous]

"But If any of the nine governments that ran Japan these last 20 years did their duty to modernize a rigid and aging system, the economy might not be cavitating so spectacularly."　はい

[nacady]

"世界的な貿易戦争中に消費税を10％に上げることがなぜ悪いことなのか、ググれば説明できただろう。最低限、安倍首相は過去2回の消費税増税の即時中止を発表し、税率を5％に引き下げるべきだ"

[akymrk]

英語圏では、フーバー大統領=大恐慌で定着 “A quick Google search of “Herbert Hoover” could’ve explained why tightening fiscal policy during a global trade war is a terrible idea.” 9/30までにフーバーでググってくれてれば消費増税は回避できた, etc.

[assaulter]

この記事バズって欲しいんだけど英語なんだよなぁ