The economic impact – and opportunity – of disaster
MORE THAN TWO MONTHS AFTER A major earthquake - followed by a mind-boggling tsunami that incapacitated a nuclear power plant – shook Japan and its financial systems to the core, recovery is seemingly on the horizon, and according to Yoshito Hori, Managing Partner of GLOBIS Capital Partners and President and Dean of GLOBIS University, there’s more that can be done.
From a Tokyo perspective, Hori says that while concerns remain over the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants, these are not that acute. And as far as power supplies to Greater Tokyo are concerned, while...
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