Japan's structural problems

Despite the government's best efforts, Japan's demographic issues probably aren't going away any time soon.

For our final piece on the Japanese economy (and one of our last posts from Japan 🥺), Nuance Matters is going to dive into the macro-factors that are impacting Japan’s long-term future.

While Japan’s GDP per capita on a purchase-power parity basis is still respectable, it has been a pretty stagnant 35 years. Still well above developing economies like China and India, Japan now lags well behind the US (dropping from 81% of the US down to 64%) and has actually been passed by neighbor South Korea.