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

Clouded Outlook
Sendai salarymen take a cigarette break. Japan once shared Asia's dynamism and mission. But not anymore. Today Japan stands a land apart, an island of inertia in an Asia that is in constant flux.

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