Japan

Via The Globalist, Professor Prabhu Guptara describes Why the Next Decade Will Be Neither Chinese Nor Indian

My choice may be particularly surprising, given that Japan's economy has been dragging for the last 25 or more years, in spite of everything that the Japanese government has tried.

So why am I now putting my money on Japan? Sadly, it is not because I believe that Japan is on the verge of rejecting the cultural limitations imposed by its past.

Rather, it is because of robots! My view of Japan's place in the world through the next couple of decades started changing in mid-summer 2005, when I was one of the over 22 million people who visited the World Expo in Aichi.