The WHO has become a scapegoat
The World Health Organization has been lambasted by some for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Has GDP outgrown its use?
Governments and the media obsess about it while statisticians endlessly fiddle – but what is the real point of GDP and can it ever be...
Lunch with the FT: Tadashi Yanai
Over sea urchin, wagyu beef and ice-cream, Uniqlo's founder and Japan's richest man talks to David Pilling about his country's 'collective...
Wish I were there: a taste of the past in Tokyo’s Shitamachi
David Pilling on a very different side of the high-tech, high-rise city.
How the public is "being deceived" over GDP
As anger at government and big business grows, now's the time to question what we thought we always knew, says David Pilling.
Rising Sun (Published 2014)
He quickly returned to Japan to report on the disaster and its consequences. He conceived of this book, whose ambition, he says, is “to create a...
Demographic discontent across Africa is a ticking time bomb
Tanzania is the latest African dictatorship masquerading as a democracy to shoot its own children. In a country that portrays itself as a...
Book Excerpt: 'Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival' by David Pilling
Book Excerpt: 'Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival' by David Pilling · Leslie Hook, · James Kynge, · Richard McGregor, and David...
Why powering business is the real lightbulb moment for Africa
The idea to bring electricity to 300mn Africans is laudable but the assumptions are flawed.
No election in Kenya is better than a flawed election
Today's presidential re-run is bad for African democracy, writes David Pilling.
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As a journalist for the Financial Times, Pilling has often critiqued Japan's economic stagnation and its challenges in adapting to modern global dynamics.