Japan's revisionist conservative generation 1980-20?? fails to maintain Japan's economic position per capita/absolute GDP, it fails to make Japan a world power, it fails to increase the birth rate/preserve the family, it many ways fails to restore nebulous "pride".

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This is downwind of when people trot out that Lee Kuan Yew quote about air conditioning (but not, you know, having lots of water-intensive industries on an island that lacks fresh water).

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I have seen this happen with at least three people I know personally FWIW.

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Off to Japan at the weekend so stay tuned for me coming back having turned into a Post-Liberal rent-a-quote in a cravat who will cherrypick every single experience I have as a sign for why the United Kingdom is in a state of permanent decline that can only be resolved by enforcing rules and racism.

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I agree. Without Imperial framework, nobody wants the Koreans, without the Imperial ambition scale matters less. And they have rural-urban migration that delays pressure till the 1980's. 1990's unemployment is high. Its not until full employment/population loss post-2010 the dam fully breaks.

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