How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better

Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by JetSetWilly on Sunday April 13, 2014 @12:44PM (#7581840)

If birth rates are a measure of the success of a society, then Afghanistan, Niger and Mali must be the most successful nations on Planet Earth.

The countries at the bottom of this list seem much more pleasant to live in than the countries at the top: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de...

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Re:How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better by hga on Sunday April 13, 2014 @01:22PM (#7581972)

You're looking at the wrong thing.

If you don't replace yourself, you're a dead end, a historical curiosity at some point if you're lucky. Imagine a Japan that is one day remember mostly for and about it's anime and manga.... And, oh, yeah, they found a superior way to make good quality cars, assuming we're still using those in the 24th and a Half Century.

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