Gearoid Reidy

The next generation might not know the freedom of a game changing hands without corporate permission - but it might not care, says Gearoid Reidy for Bloomberg Opinion.

In a memorable quip during her campaign for election earlier this year, Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi promised that she would smash the button marked “growth.” Her strategy now pits that instinct against those who fear the country’s finances may be what gets smashed instead.

Anyone of a certain generation will remember trading video game cartridges in the schoolyard, an essential part of a hobby where new titles cost more than a month's allowance.

IN A memorable quip during her campaign for election earlier this year, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi promised that she would smash the button marked “growth”.

Has Japan finally taken the emergency hammer and broken the “strengthen-yen-here” glass?

In a memorable quip during her campaign for election earlier this year, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi promised that she would smash the button marked “growth.” Her strategy now pits that instinct against those who fear the country's finances may be what gets smashed........

Following Argentina’s controversial come-from-behind World Cup victory against Egypt, a match the losing team said was “fixed,” one wit on social media summed up the mood.

Has Japan finally taken the emergency hammer and broken the “strengthen-yen-here” glass? Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama pulled a genuine surprise on Friday when she announced toward the end of a regularly scheduled news conference that the...

Following Argentina's controversial come-from-behind World Cup victory against Egypt, a match the losing team said was “fixed,” one wit on social media summed up the mood.

In 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Finance unveiled Kokusai-sensei, a mascot whose smiling face is made from the first kanji character in the Japanese word for government bonds. Everything has a mascot in this country, and this was designed to drum up retail interest in sovereign debt, which then yielded a meager 0.5%.