S Korea Forecast to Finally Outstrip Japan in GDP (PPP)

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Asian economic rankings | A Game of Leapfrog; South Korea may soon be richer than Japan. Economist, Apr 28, 2012.
http://www.economist.com/node/21553498
(IMF predicts Korea, the last of Asian Tigers, to do the trick in 2017; "In 1980 South Korea’s GDP per person was barely a quarter the level of Japan’s")

Note: Tokyo Sky Tree
http://www.tokyo-skytree.jp/en/