Tomoo Kikuchi is a professor at the department of economics, Korea University and an adjunct senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Yohei Tanaka is a lead economist and a deputy manager at the Americas project division, INPEX, a Japan-based oil and gas exploration and production company.
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga recently announced a plan to reinvent Tokyo as a global financial hub by lowering tax rates and providing various administrative support in English to attract top foreign talent.