All this is enough to alienate investors, but before you write the country off, read Benjamin Fulford's "Jack Welch lite" on page 64.

FORBES: Sidelines

Benjamin Fulford, our Tokyo bureau chief for the past two years, previously exposed corruption in the public works sector (FORBES, Feb. 8, 1999).

FORBES: Side Lines

Former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker told Forbes magazine's Benjamin Fulford that he can't recall in his career a touchier global economic situation.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In this issue Tokyo-based correspondent Benjamin Fulford explores a Chinese frontier that hasn't often been in our news in recent years--because few English-language journalists go there.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Our other correspondents in Asia--Robyn Meredith in Hong Kong, naturally, and also Justin Doebele in Singapore and Benjamin Fulford in Tokyo--confront the topic nearly every day.

FORBES: Shanghai communicator

This magazine enjoyed another honor in late April, when a piece we published a year ago by the FORBES correspondent in Tokyo, Benjamin Fulford, was cited by the Overseas Press Club of America in its annual judging.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Benjamin Fulford in Tokyo (also twice, for an early report on huge multinational stakes in gas drilling off Russia's Sakhalin Island and a profile of a frustrated inventor at Toshiba) and Deborah Orr in New York, for her account of the Barilla pasta family.

FORBES: Magazine Article