do u think japn will make a come back 2nd quarter of 2008?
ever since 1991, japan's economy has been rather poor...

of course of course. Their housing and tourism and hospitality services are in the pits. Why?? all buildings forbid entry to gaijin. And since gaijin always get nazi like oppressing treatment against them they leave, leaving the tourism industry to lick their losses. Hospitality services won't even allow gaijin into onsens because they beliieve any service fit for Japanese is not fit for non-japanese who they view as sub-human undeserving of of the "godly japanese" get. Very very racist. This is Japan. Japan 1930 = Japan Today.

Also Heinrich Himmler looks japanese therefore he is because his behaviour is like that of a japanese.

Those buildings are probably brothels catering to Japanese men.

Well...personally i think the economy has to do with the age of the population...there are more and more elderly, and less and less young and ablebodied people...thus a smaller workforce to make money

Eh? It's been picking up with the rise of China. China's been buying up Japanese goods like a 14 year old stocks up on anti-acne cream.



That is correct madam.

I found this (Japan's Long, Slow Slide) to be intriguing, while Japan will be an Asian powerhouse for years to come...its influence is increasingly diminishing

The Korean made cars are becomeing so very popular these days, the Hyundai and their logo look so much like the Honda's too.

updated link from my previous post

Guys, Japan is developed country with their economy is mature stage, where as China is still developing.
Any matured economy won't grow fast, technically Japan is only asian country that can be called full developed country.

According to Goldman sachs, Japanese economy is going to shrink 30% by 2050.

How can Japan remain a #1 powerhouse when all of it's advantages over the other Asian countries are diminishing? Unless some other revolutionary wave comes along, rapid growth or reclaiming the glory years ain't going happen. But in light of that, Japan is already fully developed and peaceful Country. Given Japan's size and lack of resources, hasn't it reached it's pinnacle?

Japan's No.1 issue is they lack natural resources, but they have abundant human resource.
Yes, Japan have reached their peak and economically won't be growing given their population will be shrink, but will remain strong unless they go to war with neighboring countries or some disaster (natural disasters) causes damage.

However, their innovations and scientific achievement will be growing.

And growing China and unification of 2 Koreas might be their down fall as two nations will not let Japan to go free.

Actually Japan's denial of history and their racist atitudes is the downfall of Japan's economy. Many Japanese invest in right-wing politicians, right-wing banks, right-wing corporations, all which have to do with Japan's secret service who work hard to rebuild imperial japan.

Japan currently runs over 630 Trillion Yen in right wing politics. Yen spent on propaganda, military, racism, war, discrimination etc. would have been better if put in social services and small family and buisness support. But Japan is not a place to sympathize with peasants unfortunatley, so the big and powerful decide everthing

YAY! finally someone who sees my view...or i just have really dumb friends....

Good question is Japan mostly small business or big business. You see if you end up losing a lot of your small businesses then your economy will crumble like it is in America, but if you lose a lot of your big businesses and keep the small ones then your economy will sky rocket.

It's funny because, the huge corporation CEOS run $hit in Japan.

I think the economy for Japan will always be good no matter what, even if they are going down hill. Like an above poster said, they probably have reached their peak. They are not in dept like the crazy Americans.

the Japanese are really really really LUCKY to have such a good neightbour as China. It is the country they raped apart 60 years ago. It is the country where the Japanese masscared million of people and raped thousands of women and kill thousand of children. Now not only China don't ban the products from being sold in China, they even spend so much on purchasing Japanese trains, machinery, cars.... You could never find such a country in the world where the gov't would support a country that has do so much harm to her people. Look at that Kimchi land called Korea right beside Japan, they had ban Japanese products not until recently. The Japanese are really one of the luckiest group of people in the world.
Same goes to those western countries that had do so much masscare to China in the past. They are so lucky that a country called China where everyone would have forget what the foreigners have done to them. Annd more importantly , they would open their arms and welcome you to the country to once again "rape" them once more. There is only one country in the world that would allow such thing to happen , and this is China.

Yes, Japan was lucky since both China & Korea was in bad shape.

The only thing Japan separate from being powerful nation is "natural resource" and their homeland is group of Islands.
Having lack of natural resource and surrounded by seas in 360 degree can be big obstacle.

That's one of primary reasons, but it didn't stop it from becoming an empire in WWII or booming during 80s, but a declining population isn't helping either, nor is productivity increasing rather I've read a few articles on the new generation supposedly being less productive (me thinks why the Japanese so facinated with robots solves both productivity and population issue lol). While I don't forsee Japan plummeting from the world economy, but rather quietly surpassed by its Asian neighbors in particular China and India in the future...had have a relationship like Great Britain to USA and China.

I don't like using the term downfall but more along the lines of becoming less important and the focus of widening and being more focused on China.



I don't think that it's a disgrace to be Economically surpassed by two countries the size of India and China. It did take them about a century (maybe longer) to finally get their proverbial $hit together and catch up with the rest of the civilized, economic giants of the World. All China and India are doing is playing catch-up.

As I wrote before, Japan was lucky since both China & Korea was failed states.
If China & Korea wasn't in that position, Japan never have became empire in WWII.

And because of the Korean war, Japan was able to re-build their economy.

Currently, Japan is not growing as it have reached it's potentials.

I have no problem if someone says Japan had luck on their side when they did but I have a problem when someone uses the word luck in a way to paint a false picture of Japan and to accredit their achievements to only 'luck' and not because they obviously had the genuine and proven abilities to succeed in this World where others have failed to do so. There are no If, And or But's.. China WAS in the position they were in and Korea WAS in the position they were in.