The State of Japan: Facing shock waves of change

Japan's phenomenal post-war success has made it the world's second biggest economy and the largest foreign investor, despite few natural resources. High-wage Japan now faces many of the problems of a mature economy in the 1990s - increasing competition from 'hungrier' neighbours, new security challenges, an ageing population and 'internationalisation' of its traditional culture. Will its social and political structures prove able to adapt?

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