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{ 2009 06 20 }

Has Japan’s mojo faded?

Their technological breakthroughs, their weird-but-cool anime, their impossibly large, flashy, high-rise neon cityscapes seem to capture the imagination of the West throughout the nineties.
When did Japan stop being the future?
Was it the Japanese real estate bust? Can something so banal alter our vision of the future?
I’d say any society that is vibrant, innovative and successful is a signpost ahead. In the nineties, Japan was all that, and the world took notice. It’s still a powerful and fascinating country, but the collective imagination of the West seems to be more captivated by their mainland neighbours at the moment.

Posted by "daddy" Dave on Saturday, June 20, 2009, at 3:38 am. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Bruce | June 24, 2009 at 1:52 am | Permalink

    Here’s a clue – India used to be said to have a ‘population problem’, but now it has been dubbed a Demographic Dividend.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6911544.stm

    “It is expected that, in 2020, the average age of an Indian will be 29 years, compared to 37 for China and 48 for Japan…”