The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo’s slide also depressed sentiment. If the HSI breaks 17,400 that will be the first sign that sentiment is weakening.

In Paris the cashiers sit rather than stand. They run your goods over a scanner, tally up the price, and then ask you for exact change. The story they give is that there aren’t enough...

Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers were whispering to each other, businessmen were poring over spread sheets,...

The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He wrote Saturday Night Fever, then crossed it out and wrote Drag Ball +...

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

From New Year’s Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

What comes from the heart will go to the heart