Learned from the child I carried, I cross the shallow waters [Kakashi Mori]
Mori Akira's Profile
Economist. Affiliated with think tanks (United States). Specializes in exchange rate policy, monetary policy, macroeconomic policy, and financial regulation. Interacts with market participants, financial authorities, and policy makers, and conducts analyses of exchange rate trends from multiple perspectives.
*This article is a reprint and edited version of an article from FX攻略.com February 2020 issue. Please note that the market information written in the main text may differ from the current market.
When walking around town, you often see McDonald's and Starbucks. When walking through busy entertainment districts like Manhattan in New York, you can find another store within less than three minutes. It's nice that businesses prosper. When I was in Japan, I heard that McDonald’s is shortened to "Mac" in the Kansai region and "Mac" in the Kanto region. It seemed similar to the debate about standing on the right side on escalators in Kansai and the left side in Kanto. By the way, in Washington DC, New York, and Chicago, when you ride an escalator you stand on the right and walk on the left to pass.
