Corporate banker in Japan: 'I don't see much innovation coming out of the UK' | Joris Luyendijk

6 February 2012, 7:16 pm

A vice-president of a major western bank in Tokyo compares the banking cultures of Japan and the west • This monologue is part of a series in which people across the financial sector speak about their working lives We are meeting in the centre of Tokyo on a Saturday in January. Casually dressed for the weekend, he is a slender man in his early 30s with a fashionable haircut. He orders pasta ...... Read More »

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