an #imperial power to seize TSMC, the logic goes, would be to slay the world’s goldenest goose.

#Like a dutiful valet who exists only to make his 

By the mid-1980s, the joke was that the grounds of the #imperial palace in Tokyo were worth the same as all of #California.

In front of the #Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the skyline was dominated by the glass towers of the #country's corporate titans - Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Hitachi, Sony.