About us!

Paul J. Scalise

Paul Scalise specializes in political economy, regulatory politics, and deregulation of the Japanese energy market. A former Senior Associate at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), Mr. Scalise spent several years with such financial institutions as Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein Japan Ltd. (DrKW) and UBS Global Asset Management as an equity research analyst in Tokyo. His focus was on investment reports on Japanese energy markets from a global context, covering the whole spectrum from fossil fuel exploration, production, refinement and maritime transportation, through natural gas transmission, to electricity generation, transmission and distribution. He was voted the number one ranked Japanese utilities analyst in the 2001 Greenwich Survey among all UK financial institutions, 3rd for the Eurozone. Prior to joining DrKW, Mr. Scalise was an analyst at Sistema Económico Latino Americano (SELA), a Venezuela-based think tank, focusing on LatAm-Japan trade issues, globalization and foreign direct investment.

Hailing from upstate New York, Mr. Scalise first came to Japan in 1993. He has written on several Japanese-related issues for academic conferences, journals and newspapers. His comments on Japan are frequently quoted in major publications and newswires such as the Financial Times, the Australian Financial Review, the Wall Street Journal, and Reuters, and he has been interviewed on CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio and BBC's "The World" and "Marketplace." He authored the article on Japan's national energy policy in The Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier Academic Press 2004).

Mr. Scalise holds a B.A. with multidisciplinary honors from Marist College, an M.A. in Japan Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and is currently writing a doctorate at the University of Oxford on the successes and failures of Japan's energy market deregulation in the 1990s. He also studied at the University of Madrid and the Bologna Center. He is fluent in Japanese, Italian, and Spanish.

Yuki Allyson Honjo

Yuki Allyson Honjo is an Japanese equity analyst who has worked at such financial institutions as ING Financial Markets and Swiss Re Capital Markets (Japan) Corporation. She has specialized in food, beverages, household goods and consumer finance. She has also written for various academic conferences and newspapers, as well as contributing a chapter on transaction economics and history for Tokyo University Press. Her book, Japan’s Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports (Routledge Curzon 2003) was based on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Oxford.

Dr. Honjo’s comments on Japan are frequently quoted in major publications and newswires such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist (Japan), Mainichi Shinbun, and Institutional Investor.

Dr. Honjo hails from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, but has spent the better half of her life abroad. She holds an honors degree in history from Harvard University and a doctorate in economic and social history from the University of Oxford. She has also studied at Tokyo University. She is fluent in Japanese.