Why Nomura Can’t Conquer the World from a Showa-Era Chair
A recent editorial in the Nikkei (Japan Economics Newspaper) trumpeted a bold headline: “Nomura Must Embrace the Ambition to Challenge Global Markets.”
As a former veteran of a Japanese megabank and a current headhunter at a top-tier foreign executive search firm, this didn’t just make me chuckle—it was so utterly delusional it was almost faint-inducing.
I cannot say for certain whether the Nikkei wrote this to appease its major advertising sponsors or out of sheer ignorance.
However, one thing is clear: no major Western media outlet would ever publish such a naive and blatant piece of flattery.
In the age of social media, rhetoric that so blatantly ignores the reality of the front lines would be exposed for its lack of insight and torn apart by critics in an instant.
Investing in the Wrong Things
