Japan Economic Development

Introduction:

Japan is one of the most known countries in the world it consist of four major islands, surrounded by more than 4000 smaller ones. It’s located in northeastern Asia between the North Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan. The total area of Japan is 3778,873 square kilometers, which is approximately equal to Germany and Switzerland combined. Moreover, Japan has a population of 126 million, and most of them reside in densely populated urban areas. Japan is the second largest economies in the world after the United States

Stephen Church of Analytica Japan, a consultancy, enumerates the modern bureaucracy's main characteristics: control of the market through permits and regulations (hence hostility to deregulation and opening up); giving priority to producers over consumers (to promote Japan Inc.); the philosophy of messhi hoko, self-sacrifice for the sake of the group (i.e., Japan Inc., once again); and the promotion of conformity, especially through the education system (to reduce dissent). "What distinguishes Japan's 'totalitarianism'," writes Church, "is that there is no observable Big Brother figure. It is the structure itself that functions as Big Brother, [which] makes it almost impossible to change the system." ...

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The Problems of a Decreasing Population

Japan is fast becoming the world’s oldest ever human population (by 2025, 27.3%, or 33.2 million people, will be aged over 60) (Cornelius, 1994: 378). Coupled with the aforementioned low birth rate, the problems Japan faces in the immediate future are acute. With Japan’s labour force expected to decrease by 10% in the next 25 years, the economic outlook is far from bright. In all likelihood the domestic market will shrink, production will fall3, the government’s revenue base will contract inexorably and it will...