A Stagnant Japan Is Mirror for the West

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Martin Fackler, Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened; Retrenchment offers the West a grim view of the future. New York Times, Oct. 17, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/asia/17japan.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=japan&st=cse

Note:
(a) Japanese surnames:
Oka 岡
Oda 織田
Higaki 日垣
Kaiami 貝阿弥
(b) shrivel (vi): "to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(c)  creative destruction is usually ascribed to Joseph Schumpeter (Austrian; 1883-1950).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
(d) For Richard Koo, see リチャード・クー
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC
(辜朝明; 台湾籍; born in 1954 at 日本兵庫県神戸市; father 辜寛敏, 台湾独立運動家)

Apparently he refuses naturalization or adoption of Japanese name.

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is as pessimistic about US (even the globe), which he thinks becomes Japanized, economy-wise: stag-deflation.
(e) I can not find ordinary microhouse. Here are GLAMORIZED versions of microhouse:

Lucy Craft, In Japan, Living Large In Really Tiny Houses. NPR, Aug. 3, 2010.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128953596

NPR stands for National Public Radio, in US.

(f) Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_V._Prestowitz_Jr.
(g) I question this sentence in the report: "Japan faces the world’s largest government debt — around 200 percent of gross domestic product." In terms of absolute number as opposed to percentage of GDP, America's government debts (of various levels of governments, from federal to state to municipality), about 90% of GDP, is bigger.
(h) gumption (n; origin unknown): "ENTERPRISE, INITIATIVE"
(i) Mitsuo OHASHI/ Showa Denko 大橋 光夫/ 昭和電工株式会社
www.sdk.co.jp

(j) Kazuhisa TAKEMURA 竹村 和久
(k) Senbayashi (大阪旭区の) 千林 商店街
http://tamagazou.machinami.net/senbayashi.htm

Kitashinchi 北新地
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%96%B0%E5%9C%B0
(大阪最大級の高級飲食店街)

(l) studied (adj): "produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation : CALCULATED  <studied indifference> <spoke with a studied accent>"
(m) Hisakazu MATSUDA 松田 久一
consumption-haters 「嫌消費」世代
(n) Shumpei TAKEMORI 竹森 俊平

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Martin Fackler, Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened; Retrenchment offers the West a grim view of the future. New York Times, Oct. 17, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/world/asia/17japan.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=japan&st=cse

Note:
(a) Japanese surnames:
Oka 岡
Oda 織田
Higaki 日垣
Kaiami 貝阿弥
(b) shrivel (vi): "to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture"
All definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(c)  creative destruction is usually ascribed to Joseph Schumpeter (Austrian; 1883-1950).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
(d) For Richard Koo, see リチャード・クー
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC
(辜朝明; 台湾籍; born in 1954 at 日本兵庫県神戸市; father 辜寛敏, 台湾独立運動家)

Apparently he refuses naturalization or adoption of Japanese name.

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is as pessimistic about US (even the globe), which he thinks becomes Japanized, economy-wise: stag-deflation.
(e) I can not find ordinary microhouse. Here are GLAMORIZED versions of microhouse:

Lucy Craft, In Japan, Living Large In Really Tiny Houses. NPR, Aug. 3, 2010.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128953596

NPR stands for National Public Radio, in US.

(f) Clyde V. Prestowitz Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_V._Prestowitz_Jr.
(g) I question this sentence in the report: "Japan faces the world’s largest government debt — around 200 percent of gross domestic product." In terms of absolute number as opposed to percentage of GDP, America's government debts (of various levels of governments, from federal to state to municipality), about 90% of GDP, is bigger.
(h) gumption (n; origin unknown): "ENTERPRISE, INITIATIVE"
(i) Mitsuo OHASHI/ Showa Denko 大橋 光夫/ 昭和電工株式会社
www.sdk.co.jp

(j) Kazuhisa TAKEMURA 竹村 和久
(k) Senbayashi (大阪旭区の) 千林 商店街
http://tamagazou.machinami.net/senbayashi.htm

Kitashinchi 北新地
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%96%B0%E5%9C%B0
(大阪最大級の高級飲食店街)

(l) studied (adj): "produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation : CALCULATED  <studied indifference> <spoke with a studied accent>"
(m) Hisakazu MATSUDA 松田 久一
consumption-haters 「嫌消費」世代
(n) Shumpei TAKEMORI 竹森 俊平

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