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This board has a disturbing lack of JAPAN IS SUPERIOR

Japan has the world's second-biggest economy, achieving an economic miracle in the second half of the 20th century that was the envy of the rest of the world.

Its role in the international community is considerable. It is a major aid donor and a source of global capital and credit.

For the majority, life in Japan is urban. More than three quarters of the population live in sprawling cities on the coastal fringes of Japan's four mountainous, wooded islands.

Japan's rapid post-war expansion - propelled by highly successful car and consumer electronics industries - ran out of steam by the 1990s.

The 1997 Asian financial crisis, and bouts of recession, precipitated major banking, public spending and private sector reforms.

Japan remains a traditional society with strong social and employment hierarchies - Japanese men have tended to work for the same employer throughout their working lives.