Japan, every mention
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every year anyone Nikhil Kamath 11Ruchir Sharma 7Matthew C. Klein 7HE Omar Sultan Al Olama 5Ajay Banga 4Ritesh Agarwal 3Joseph Kim 2Jitendra Chouksey 2Abhishek Khaitan 2Vinod Khosla 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Japan comes up
The Battery Everyone Uses Is The One They'd Never Build | EnerVenue x HiNa | WTF are Batteries? · Nikhil Kamath
They Called The Trade Wars & China's Housing Crash | Nikhil Kamath | WTF is Finance Ep 4 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 28:13 Matthew C. Klein And so, you know, there's a reason, you know, Japan's an interesting case, right?
- ▶ 33:13 Matthew C. Klein I mean, the only real example we have of a country that's sort of done this is Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:13 Matthew C. Klein I mean, you know, one thing I remember learning about, and people thought it was such a revelatory when it happened, the, um, there was an earthquake in Japan in 1995. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:07 Matthew C. Klein I mean, some would be bigger than other ones, but even in the period where people talk about, like, sterling as the reserve currency, it was notable insofar as, say, like, Japan had most of its foreign reserves in
- ▶ 49:24 Matthew C. Klein And I think actually the commonality is in those places in, in Europe and the U S and in Japan and elsewhere is, um, because so many people have the majority, if not the vast majority of their wealth in housing, there is a very reasonable…
Two Pharma Giants Who'd Never Met | Mankind & Dr. Reddy's | WTF is Pharma? · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:09:37 G. V. Prasad And they've overtaken Korea, Japan, Europe.
Howard Marks: AI, Debt vs Equity & The Next 40 Years Of Investing | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 4:38 Nikhil Kamath And you studied Japanese literature at Wharton? 6 times in the scene
The World Bank President On Why Jobs Fix Everything | Ajay Banga x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 13:41 Ajay Banga That issue got created to help rebuild Europe and Japan after the Second World War. 4 times in the scene
17 Young Founders | 8 Startups | 20 Lakh Grants | Third WTFund Cohort · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 5:30 unnamed speaker I, I was asked to relocate to Japan to join them full time, but what happened? 4 times in the scene
The Case for Youth in Politics | HE Omar Sultan Al Olama (One of the World's Youngest Ministers) · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 9:25 HE Omar Sultan Al Olama So the, the thing is, uh, ok, this service existed in Japan for a while, it existed in Korea, it's now moving around the world.
- ▶ 42:30 HE Omar Sultan Al Olama Look at Japan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:54 HE Omar Sultan Al Olama At around, um, seven p.m., I think it was seven or eight p.m., Tokyo time, because we were in Tokyo in Japan, um, the announcement came out that I became Minister of AI.
A.R. Rahman: The Genius Who Took Indian Music Global | Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF | Ep 15 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:42:55 A. R. Rahman No, it's from Japan or US or Germany or London.
Tira, Bombay Shaving Co., Inde Wild | WTF is Fueling India’s Beauty & Skincare Revolution? | Ep. 25 · Nikhil Kamath
India vs. China vs. US: Who Wins the Next Decade? | WTF is Finance | Ep 1 ft. Ruchir Sharma · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 30:48 Ruchir Sharma I mean, everyone's spoken about America's growth rate being much superior to Europe, to Japan. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:19 Nikhil Kamath Like, let's say if the treasury bills are at four and a half percent, let's say ballpark today, I would say if they were not the reserve currency, I'm just thinking as a Japanese guy, a Chinese guy, or an Indian guy, why would I be buying…
- ▶ 45:22 Ruchir Sharma Yeah, first it was Japan. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07:58 Ruchir Sharma Took up too much debt, and then places like Europe, Japan facing demographic issues, regulatory issues and stuff.
- ▶ 2:38:13 Ruchir Sharma And they all thought Europe, emerging markets, Japan was all junk.
Inside Silicon Valley’s VC Playbook | WTF is Venture Capital? - 2025 Edition | Ep. 24 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:28:15 Niko Bonatsos So like in Okinawa and Japan and Nicaria and Greece and like, you know, other parts.
Vinod Khosla: College Degrees Are Becoming Useless | People by WTF | Episode 12 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 49:07 Vinod Khosla We invest in a company called Sakana in Japan for the same reason.
From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:06:49 Nikesh Arora And in Japan as well.
Nikhil Kamath x NZ PM Christopher Luxon | People by WTF Ep #7 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 20:48 Christopher Luxon That's the size of Japan or the size of the UK.
Ep #22 | WTF are Craft Beverages? Nikhil ft. the Founders of Blue Tokai, Subko, Svami, and Mossant · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 20:32 unnamed speaker How's Japan? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:09:26 Nikhil Kamath What's happening in places like Japan, Korea, and all that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00:34 unnamed speaker See what's happening in Japan, see what's happening in South Korea.
Ep #21 | WTF is Longevity? | Nikhil ft. Nithin Kamath, Bryan Johnson, Prashanth, Jitendra & Seema · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 4:11 Jitendra Chouksey Take example of Japan. 2 times in the scene
Ep. #20 | WTF are Indian Real Estate Giants Up To? Nikhil ft. Irfan, Nirupa, & Karan · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 42:41 Nikhil Kamath Where India, like Japan has a, has a large percentage of our population, which is older, and there are lesser young people coming in, and older people, I would assume need lesser real estate.
- ▶ 2:22:59 Nirupa Shankar Um, I think my dad went to Japan, saw Roppongi Hills, and you know, the whole mixed-use township concept.
Ep #18 | WTF, Alcohol is a $70B Business in India? | Nikhil Kamath explores Gaps & Opportunities · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:00:42 Nikhil Kamath Uh, this problem is so stark in countries like Japan, where young people are not drinking.
- ▶ 2:39:26 Abhishek Khaitan Then the single malts from Japan, the Asian, the Kavalins, the now the Indian malts. 2 times in the scene
Ep# 17 | WTF is Gaming in India? | Career, Investment, Entrepreneurship · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:14:28 Nitish Mittersain So when the kids are talking to each other, let's say I'm an Indian and there's another Japanese kid and I'm talking in Hindi to you Japanese kid is going to translate in real time.
- ▶ 1:34:19 Joseph Kim It's not true for Japan. 2 times in the scene
WTF Ep# 16 | What character "flaws" make the best entrepreneurs? Nikhil ft.Ritesh, Ghazal and Manish · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 3:57:51 Ritesh Agarwal Uh, you asked who's, uh, I, uh, you know, I often call him Sonsan given, uh, in Japan, you typically add a son at the end, um, out of respect. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:59:15 Ritesh Agarwal So I went to Japan.
Ep# 14 | WTF is Happening with EV? Nikhil ft. Founders of Reva, Ather, Blusmart, and Ossus · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:02:01 Suruchi Rao Go from Australia, Japan, South Korea, and onwards.
Ep# 12 | WTF is The Restaurant Game? Nikhil w/ Pooja Dhingra, Zorawar Kalra & Riyaaz Amlani · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:54:56 Pooja Dhingra When I went to Japan now, I think my whole list was an Instagram-filled list of, like, all these, like, matcha-filled drinks and, like, corn and stuff.
Ep #7 | Who is Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Really? And WTF is Biotech? · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:18:57 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw That's what Japan has already become.