Is Japan's debt mountain a ticking time bomb?

This week we are going to talk about Japan. That country has a huge debt mountain, in percentage terms the largest in the world. Is that a ticking time bomb that can cause a global financial crisis?

And a number of banks this week called on their people not to work from home all day but to simply come back to the office. Is that also better for productivity? Coincidentally, a study on that just came in.

And we start this week with a question about the fall of the cabinet: what is the economic legacy of Schoof I?