#Japan was the first country to reach peak fiat when they blew up their economy 30+ years ago. It, along with the Yen has been on life support ever since, slowly dragging the country backwards as they wait for everyone else to reach the same point of collapse.
The knock-on effect has been an absolutely awful shift in demographics (see pic 2) culminating in 2023 having HALF as many births as deaths.
We are watching a country commit suicide in slow motion to maintain its economic fiction. 
This just came out today
Saw that earlier too. An absolute disaster for South Korea as well, signs of a very sick society
Question comes to mind: who owns what share of all the Japanese assets (real estate, company shares, ..)?
If a big share of all valuable things is owned by international investors, that will become the real problem, as international capital will continue extracting rent from the coming generations.
If on the other hand the valuable tangible things in Japan are mostly privately owned by the older population itself, then their few children will inherit it and have a better chance of being parents instead of working hours and hours to pay the rent.
Japan might be the most oppressed country in the last 30 years.
