The Japanese economy often receives a bad rap from experts. The usual and common narrative is that Japan suffers from a low economic growth rate, low birthrate, huge government debt, an aging population, average entrepreneurship and dying regions.
Japan has long been a close but distant neighbor to Korea. The two countries are geographically close, but their relationship is full of twists such as the unresolved legacies of Japan s forced colonial rule of Korea in 1910-45.
Korea s top memory chipmakers - Samsung Electronics and SK hynix - are caught in the middle of an escalating U.S.-China semiconductor tussle, facing pressure from Washington to stop boosting semiconductor output in their largest market, China, according to industry experts, Tuesday. They urged the Korean government to take more steps to protect them, claiming it is going too far to tell for-profit companies to make business decisions based on the logic of a geopolitical power struggle.