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

No Exit?
Japan appears no closer to finding solutions than it was a decade ago. Every few months, Tokyo's political revolving door spits out a new Prime Minister — there have been six such leaders in four years — who inevitably vows that the time has come, finally, truly, to reform.

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