2015: Living Through Inexorable Change / W. David MARX Ever since the Japanese economic miracle came to an end in the 1990s, Western analysts and critics have spewed forth lists and lists of all the structural changes Japan needed for national revival. And for two decades, leaders of Japanese government and business have mostly ignored […]
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The Year 2015 in Japan
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