The annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting was packed with insights, and many media outlets have already provided detailed summaries, so I won't go into them one by one here. What caught my attention, however, was Buffett's rare public expression of a clear investment stance regarding Japan. He stated that his investments in Japan's five major trading companies—MARUBENI, MITSUBISHI CORPORATION, SUMITOMO CORPORATION, MITSUI & CO., and ITOCHU CORPORATION—will be held for the ultra-long term, with no plans to sell for 50 years. Buffett first invested in these five trading companies in 2020, issuing bonds locally in Japan to leverage low-cost yen for buying Japanese stocks, essentially replicating his strategy of using float to invest in U.S. stocks...