[montomike]

Aren’t there a lot of Chinese who would love to live in Japan and keep the dream alive?

[Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo]

The Chinese aren’t making babies either.

[omega4179]

Aren’t there a lot of Mexicans that would keep the Japanese machine going?

[posterchild]

Passing through as a tourist recently it appeared to be a very nice place to live (though merely as a tourist I don’t have the whole picture such as what it would be like to start a business there, pay taxes, etc.). People seemed very polite, honest, and sincerely interesting in providing good service and being helpful.

Not sure I understood their sense of humor though - 2 people in japan tried to convince me that Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. It was hysterical...

[snowsislander]

Nonetheless, the manager's fund is positioning itself to profit from a sovereign debt crisis he sees coming in three to four years that will devastate prices of Japanese government bonds (JGBs), while sending longterm interest rates soaring. In the process, he says, the yen will plummet as domestic and foreign investors flee Japanese assets.

I have heard this and variations on this for over a decade, but the yen is now very strong (near record-breaking levels, for that matter) and interest rates are still very low.