by Harry Clynch | Apr 17, 2024 | Business |
The Japanese government has tried to capitalise on the power of the private sector to advance its foreign policy in Africa, but investors remain notoriously risk-averse. With Africa now the venue of increasingly high levels of geopolitical competition,...
by Emma Ruiters | Apr 16, 2023 | Business |
Photo by Micheile Henderson. In recent years, Japanese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been rising in African countries. A new development has been that Japanese FDI has been flowing to information and communications technology (ICT) & Digital Technologies....
by Emma Ruiters | Apr 5, 2023 | Sub-Culture |
The value of the international video game industry is projected to reach $366bn this year, with mobile games comprising a significant chunk of that. About one in three people worldwide play games in some shape or form. While much of the industry is focused on the US,...
by Emma Ruiters | Oct 31, 2022 | Other |
Former MSc in Japanese Studies student Emma Ruiters publishes another article on Japan-Africa. My strange and sometimes wholly disparate loves. Trying to bridge South Africa and Japan, and increasingly looking at other African countries, has been my strange...
by Emma Ruiters | Oct 31, 2022 | Business |
There has been renewed global interest in the continent, with large, young populations as potential consumer markets A Japanese flag flutters atop the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai While China is experiencing a...
