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...Giving Something Back But Japan is about more than just thinking green. Despite a stagnant economy, life in Japan is still remarkably good. No wonder, then, that some Japanese are turning inward, cozy in their temperature-controlled bubble of convenience stores and well-designed boutiques. Glen Fukushima, a former head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, laments how, in international forums, Japanese tend to know a lot but are often unwilling to actually express themselves. Nevertheless, a sizable contingent of Japanese, who grew up in the era of globalization, see it as their homeland's responsibility to engage...
...example. And Japan's population is graying fast, leaving working-age Japanese to wonder how they'll support a growing number of elderly-and just who will support them when it's their own turn to retire. "Tokyo is doing well, but outside Tokyo is not," says Mizuho Fukushima, leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP). "The nation is doing well, but its citizens...
...Revise the fundamental education law to allow for greater emphasis on patriotism. Although a council he convened last month released more detailed recommendations, including increasing total class time, critics aren't impressed. Abe "doesn't address the real problems that Japan's education system faces," says the SDP's Fukushima, who notes that Japan still spends considerably less per student on public schooling than the O.E.C.D. average-forcing parents to plug the gap by sending their kids to private schools if they can afford...
...Japanese public that the new China is a rising and hostile country," says Shi Yinhong, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. "What we say and do are very important in shaping the Japanese sense of their own safety in the international community." Says Akiko Fukushima, director of policy studies at the National Institute for Research Advancement in Tokyo: "We have to make proactive efforts to have better relations with China and Korea. Otherwise Japan will not be a viable player in Northeast Asia...
...With such changes, says Fukushima, Japan may manage to settle into a kind of affluent stasis, but the country is still probably finished as an economic overachiever. "The high-growth story in Japan is over," he says, predicting that a long-run GDP growth rate of 1% per year is probably the best the country can hope for. With far fewer people working, output may stagnate no matter how productive Japan's workforce becomes. All of which means that someday soon in the suburbs of Tokyo, and across the nation, you may have to start parking your...