Toyota – why would they invest in JAP because it costs too much money
Moving to more vibrant economies in CHINA and INDIA
Perpetuation outsourcine
Xenophobia – fear of foreigners --- don’t dig immigration
Can visit because you pay them money to use their places, but don’t plan on staying
JAP is 99% ethnically JAPanese
Gov. can’t get people to procreate or spend
Propaganda campaign to get interest in immigration, didn’t work
Increased retirement age, 75 or life
Go home and have sex day
Robots!! – increase productivity
Politically stagnant/gridlocked
Constitutional monarchy
DO vote, but 2 party system, but center right, conservative part has one every time in
the last 60 years --- like republican party in the U.S.
Every major ministers are related to former political system and this closed systems
makes for not much growth
Prime ministerial parade…. Quitting
Divided pop on how to get economy going, immigration, everything, constitution, military
in JAP
Loosing jobs, business, pop…..but still 2
nd
largest economy and well positioned in 21
st
century to make a rebound

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