Scenes of a Stagnant Japanese Economy

Scenes of a Stagnant Japanese Economy

In Sendai, dynamic growth has been supplanted by unemployment and stale planning
Andreas Seibert for TIME

Scant Shelter
A homeless man lies in a Sendai park. Though the local leadership says it intends to create jobs by attracting factories to the region, Japan as a whole suffers from excess capacity, so companies have less incentive to invest heavily in new facilities, while many manufacturers prefer to build plants overseas, where costs are lower or markets are expanding.

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