On a serious note, I find these articles to be very informative and a good addition to the forum. It is one of the reasons I love coming here.
To my mind, not every article has to be about raw American politics.
Yeah, all those articles about pop stars celebrity gossip or some nonsense.
Agreed—interesting article.
Tokyo has the “secret sauce”.
It is the Japanese people.
If all Japanese people lived in these other cities they would be just fine.
That is why political reorganization or economic measures are not the problem—and therefore cannot fix the problem.
The Economist is in deep denial on this—and is therefore useless.