Excerpts of the interview follow: Question: Why is it that prices in Japan have remained unchanged for so long? Watanabe: For example, prices of daily services, such as at the beauty parlor and ...

Moderated by AIPS President Gianni Merlo, the interview allowed Watanabe to elaborate on his radical proposal for the Olympics. "The idea of holding them in five cities simultaneously, with ten ...

The Toshizo Watanabe International Scholarship Program (TWISP) provides undergraduate and graduate students from Japan with opportunities to study at Brandeis University on full-tuition scholarships.

"It's impossible to guide the yen to a certain level through currency intervention," Watanabe told Reuters in an interview. "Only when there's huge volatility would intervention prove useful ...