Tamura gives conservatism a tongue-lashing

"If you speak only one language, you are an American."

“If you speak two languages, you are bilingual,” began the flamboyantly dressed Koutaro Tamura as he spoke to the audience at Euromoney’s Japan Capital Markets Congress on September 26. Tamura, a controversial figure recently “kicked out of government” (in his own words – he was a parliamentary secretary in the cabinet office responsible for financial services) was part of a panel discussing the viability of Tokyo as a financial hub for Asia, and had been asked about New York.

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