How has Japan not imploded?

[Maurice Maine]

Their economy is in decline for 3 straight decades, their companies are literally subsidized by the government, their youth is either locking themselves up in their bugman apartments watching gender bender anime all day or killing themselves. How does Japan exceed all expectations and keeps on chugging along?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Slave labor culture.

 

[AnonymousKot]

They have no individualism and no pride due to being defeated in the second world war. The shit they're going through is similar to us except without as much immigration.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

If there were a big enough inciting event, I could see it having a more sudden collapse or implosion, but I think it's just more of a slow rot at this stage, thanks to the aging population and the Lost Decades. Something will happen, eventually. If Heisei was the fall, then Reiwa might be the sudden stop at the end. It's just a long, long fall.

 

[A-Stump]

Their people don't want for much and settle for the adult equivalent of jangling shiny keys in front of their faces so, they'll be fine.

 

[God of Nothing]

they are a docile slave race
good for producing anime and manga

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

Because the lucky bastards have a literal ocean between them and Mexico or any other migratory-labor nation and China is their biggest enemy. That drops the availability of cheap exploitable labor massively.

Also their government seems to give half a shit about not letting all their jobs and industry being digitally outsourced, whereas American politicians can't help it happen fast enough.

 

[Syntaxion]

they have the power of anime

 

[Mista House]

Govt debt.

Debt to GDP by country as a %
1. Venezuela 350%
2. Japan 266%
3. Sudan 259%
4. Greece 206%
5. Lebanon 176%

The only difference between them and the others is Japan still has a core of domestic industry. Still Venezuela and Lebanon are not nations you want to be like economically.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

They have a highly ordered and regimented society with just enough wealth to keep going. They simply don't have the conditions to die violently just like they don't gave the conditions to live. They're just going to keep declining slowly but surely and eventually the streets will simply be empty until people are bored enough to start it back up again, lesser than it was before and smaller than what could have been.

 

[Lone MacReady II]

They've been in a vicious cycle like all Americandan client states, and Stagflation has atrophied them for 30 years, but as mentioned above - they have racial cohesion and island protection, for now. As much as America keeps them weak to keep them reliant on western protection, they still have that as a "buffer" of sorts against China's vengeful post-WWII spirit. Fiat currency, like in all western Banana Republics, has been the ponzi of debasement and destruction for Japan. We've only just recently begun "printing" Trillions of worthless monopoly notes, whereas Japan has been at the Quadrillion level. I also firmly believe they have been under the "semitic eye" for years now. For as long as westerners have been fleeing the Jewish entertainment propaganda apparatus for less poop-colored eastern pastures, the shekel shitters have been lusting for that lost pound of flesh.

 

[Bankman]

Govt debt.

Debt to GDP by country as a %
1. Venezuela 350%
2. Japan 266%
3. Sudan 259%
4. Greece 206%
5. Lebanon 176%

The only difference between them and the others is Japan still has a core of domestic industry. Still Venezuela and Lebanon are not nations you want to be like economically.

The Japs have a strange custom. The Emperor declares that all debt is forgiven. On cue, bankers commit hari-kari. Debt problem is solved.

 

[Still Anonymous For This]

Japan’s problem isn’t necessarily stagflation: that’s somewhat by design. Japanese companies have always preferred stability over unsustainable growth. Working for a Japanese company might not always be the most thrilling of ways to earn a living, but you’ll at least always know that you’ll have a job.

Japan’s problem is that they’ve turned into a nation of NEETs who won’t have sex. You’re seeing the same thing in western nations and China, but Japan is really taking the plot with it.

 

[Rich Evans Ayypologist]

Because turning to Kiwi Farms of all places for analysis on geopolitics and financial policy is generally not going to be your best bet for any degree of understanding.

The short of it: Japan noticed its demographic decline well before Showa ended, and entered into Heisei with a mind towards investing to alleviate that. As a result, heavy automation and subsidization of core industries has allowed it to continue to be a dominant economic force, and its politics have been fairly steady and stable because it's effectively a one-party democracy. Its rough patch in handling such an elderly population will hardly be unique in a few years, as multiple states (the US among them) buckle with the Boomers retiring and the era of cheap money ending simultaneously - states which have essentially had a policy of "the good times will never end."

 

[Taked1993]

Japan has a way stronger economy than most unstable "developing" shitholes. Its currency was stronger than those of resource exporting ex-Soviet countries. The monetary policy is to artificially weaken it, also giving enough breathing space for the monetary intervention in case it gets out of control. Despite poor inflation \ economic expansion numbers throughout the years, there is still a lot of activity, a lot of consumption happenning. Levels of poverty are extremely low compared to that of China and South-East Asia. On top of that, there is no inter-ethnic or inter-faith strife, with political instability risks low.

Compare that with a country like, idk, Uzbekistan. Shit currency, shit government, shit economy. The government is run by ex-CPSU or ex-KGB, while the population is still drenched in poverty after a century of communist tyranny. The economy is still in the hands of the state, with slave labor being used to pick cotton to be sold to Bangladesh and Indonesia for textile manufacturing. On top of that, climate is shit - I was just reading headlines that people are freezing there, and the heating oil is skyrocketing price-wise. Bad infrastructure adds insult to injury. Nobody will invest there. Their government bonds are CRAP and the national currency dropping double digits throughout years. Oh and that's just the start. There's also Afghanistan just to the south and it's full of islamic extremists trying to topple the government since the early 1990s. etc. etc. There are so many basket cases in Asia, Japan is not it. Yes, it sucks by the U.S. standards, but most of the world economy is just abysmal compared to the U.S. Japan is still in the top 5, and it will take a while for the 1970s-1980s economic boom legacy to expire.

You want to see a true puzzle look at Argentina. Japan is doing great. Argentina has been in a perpetual economic crisis since the 1940s wartime embargo, imposed on it by FDR for refusing to declare war on Germany. Not a single decade of relative stability since. Some may argue that it started even earlier in 1930 after the new government took power following the U.S. stock market crash. It's been a non-stop shitshow with coups d'etat, silly wars with Britain, threatening Brazil (lmao) and Chile with wars, currency crises, and the curse of Juan Peron's retarded policies haunting the country's political life to this day.

 

[mandatorylurk]

It's because their culture still has respect for the group and there isn't societal rot, and that's the key thing to stop them from imploding IMO,. In my trips to Japan the one thing I started paying attention to was no matter the job, no matter their feelings about the job, the people actually did their job. This was the mindset in America and other places until the 90's. This is a weird thing to point out but over here and in europe you have people working minimum wage and not caring about the place they work, cutting corners when people aren't looking, just waiting to finish their shift because fuck you, still get my benefits I'm on the dole gonna get me kids to get some jaffa cakes and maltesers. Japan has gibs with public housing but they still make sure to push a care for your living space from a young age.

And because it's connected to the OP, I noticed people are having kids over there, they just aren't having 2+ kids.

 

[Fatniggo1488]

There's a few reasons they've gotten by without collapsing yet.

1. While they have an absolutely massive debt, most of that debt is held domestically by Japanese citizens
2. Their birthrates have been way bellow the sustainment rate which has caused a demographics issue but they have great eldercare which has kept the aging population working longer
3. Japanese citizens tend to work a lot of overtime
4. They actually have pretty smart trade policies which have kept their industry from becoming completely outsourced like what's happened in the west
5. Nigger culture thus far has been too alien to the Japanese so it hasn't metastasized in their culture. This has kept their crime rates and general delinquency low.
6. They're almost entirely racially homogenous which has prevented a lot of the social upheaval that's seen in the modern west

 

[FamicomGorby]

Even high skilled Japanese people generally don't speak English so they can't take their skills anywhere else.

 

[Vingle]

Robots have replaced a lot of jobs, that didn't need humans to do in the first place. So I guess the few that actually work are more focused on jobs which can't be replaced by robots (yet).