Book Review: The Wayfarer by Natsume Soseki

Book Review: The Wayfarer by Natsume Soseki

A period novel set in the early 1900’s with four distinct sections. for example the first section deals with a friend who enters hospital with a stomach complaint but then unravels as a love story gone wrong as we learn Misawa forced his companion to drink even though she had a bad condition and it forced her intoto hospital, he felt guilty and followed her there.

The novel reveals the lifestyle of the period that shares clothing, food, people’s daily routines, rickshaws, street cars, telephone, ice box, the seasons and rooming in a boarding house. We learn about places in Tokyo, the minutiae of family life and communication, the insights of how an arranged marriage comes about

An interesting insight to the period and family relationships

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Book Review: The Wayfarer by Natsume Soseki

Japanese government prepares US$188 billion stimulus package

"The Japanese government is arranging to compile a stimulus package of at least 20 trillion yen ($188 billion) to help the domestic economy emerge from deflation and fend off possible adverse effects of Brexit"

Source: 

Japanese gov't eyes over Y20 tril stimulus to support economy

 JUL. 21, 2016 

Japan Today

KYODO

http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/japanese-govt-eyes-over-y20-tril-stimulus-to-support-economy

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Negative interest rates in Japan made people hoard money

“Negative rates are turning out to be a dirt sandwich, especially for Japan...They thought that that was going to get people out spending. And what happened is they got people to go and buy safes and put money into their safes and hoard money.” 

Voya Financial Inc.’s Karyn Cavanaugh.







Source:
Japan’s ‘dirt sandwich’ of negative rates difficult to swallow: analyst
BLOOMBERG, AFP-JIJI
Japan Times Newspaper
JUL 14, 2016
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/07/14/business/financial-markets/japans-dirt-sandwich-negative-rates-difficult-swallow-analyst/#.V4hXzvl96Uk

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