Warning: This is AI generated slop. The images are good but repetitive. The reason it is worth watching is that the text is excellent and accurate. It is nevertheless only "one" aspect of Japan... still accurate.
The country is old and more and more incapable of rejuvenating itself. It behaves like an insatiable retirement home extracting more and more from the younger generations which find themselves high and dry, excluded from a society which has little hope to offer and even less chance to achieve the wealth of their parents.
Nevertheless, the Japanese society is stable and well managed so the decline is gradual if relentless. Today, salaries in Japan are no higher on average than 40 years ago although prices have doubled. But this only represents half the equation. Salaries for the grey hairs who produce almost nothing, wasting their time at "zombie" companies have risen with inflation. Not so for the younger folks who now work on "arubaito" with no long term guaranties and minimum wages.
The government is subsidizing whatever the seniors want subsidized at immense cost to the country's budget, piling up a national debt which is crashing the Yen.
This could go on forever although it won't. Eventually, an external shock will crash the system. This is unavoidable. One more reason why the global financial bubble cannot pop. And still, it will.
JAPAN is Dying: The Dark Reality Behind the Cyberpunk Myth
If you enjoy such schadenfreude videos, then the one about Dubai below is even better. All the shady money which has been sunk into the Dubai creek is about to disappear into quick sands. The whole country is on life support, one missile away from dust.
Here's what Dubai was in 1950!
DUBAI: The World's Biggest Scam
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