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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by oldmanjay on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:18PM (#11020780)
That homogeneous and mostly pleasant culture is killing itself, apparently. We may get to witness a nation commit suicide, which ought to be interesting from the outside.

I hope the insularity ends up being worth it for them, but history is not on their side.

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Re:Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate by brobinson on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:40PM (#11020934)
>That homogeneous and mostly pleasant culture is killing itself, apparently.

No, this is literally the post-WW2 boom dying off. Occupied Japan underwent a period of extreme population growth in the few decades after WW2 ended. They currently have 125mm people living in a land area the size of California which is 75% uninhabitable (mountains).

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