Could it be that the population moved to other areas of Japan. Tokyo has a pretty big population. This story could be said in many small towns in America.
No.
I’ve looked at the state of the Japanese economy from the standpoint of an investor.
They’re in deep doo-doo. And a big part of it is the “birth dearth” they have that is going to collapse their social welfare schemes as well as explode their medical care costs.... starting right about now.
In the next several years, you’re going to see some very, very serious economic developments come out of Japan. They’re going to have world-wide implications, and implications for the US as well.