Aiko Hayashi

Position: Markets Correspondent

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Hong Kong exchange

Exploring a couple of blocks on a sweltering late summer day, I felt at home in this energetic, bustling Asian city where streets teem with buses and streetcars, and people shout into cellphones on the subway or in front of stores and restaurants with signs written in the Japanese alphabet. A Tokyo afternoon? No, I was vacationing in Hong Kong.   Full Article 

An industry in the pink

One evening recently, about a dozen stock traders and a couple of reporters including myself met for dinner and drinks at a Japanese restaurant in Tokyo's glitzy Ginza district. It was the second this ...  Full Article