Richard Katz /リチャード・カッツSpecial Correspondent @ Tokyo Keizai

Richard Katz is a Special Correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai. He also publishes a free blog called “Japan Economy Watch” at https://richardkatz.substack.com/

His new book, The Contest for Japan’s Economic Future: Entrepreneurs vs. Corporate Giants, is his third on Japan and will be published in Japanese later this year. His two previous books were Japan: The System That Soured--The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Economic Miracle (1998) and Japanese Phoenix: The Long Road to Economic Revival (2003), both of which were also published in Japanese.

His essays and op-eds have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and The International Economy. He has testified several times to Congressional committees.