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Re:Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IM... by TulliusCicero on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:43PM (#38032083)
This is more than a little rose-colored.

Japan does do very well on some metrics, but there's also ones where they do pretty badly. For example, they do badly on measures of gender equality IIRC.

Re:Germany set to eclipse Japan as No. 3 economy in 2023, IM... by nwienert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:30PM (#38032983)
As measured by their own self reported satisfaction with treatment of genders, or liberal western theories on what gender equality should look like? Would be curious to see the data there.