To a zoologist, the leap of the grasshopper is one of the wonders of the world. An adult grasshopper can leap ten times its length in the high jump, 20 times its length in the broad jump. A man up to ...

Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In Aesop’s fable, the grasshopper spends its summer singing, dancing and consuming. The assiduous ant ...