1) weak yen encourage more tourists to come visit.
2) high tech environment ensure no less standard of living than in Europe.
3) fairly lax laws on prolonged stay and foreign entity property ownerships drove more assets acquisition in Japan.
Japan has been cleverly de-coupling from China since 2010s, the rest of the world can learn a thing or two from it. One thing admirable about Japan is that it has, almost all the time, navigated global geopolitics excellently hence why it is still a world power, from the Meiji Era up to today. Japan’s quite resourceful given the very limited resources it has
I can see that in quite different ways. Like even in defense. If the French-Germany-Spain FCAS remains a shit show and won’t be completed till 2050-ish. The UK-JP-ITA co-developed GCAP will become the backbone of Europe’s AirPower in the next 10 to 20 years.
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1) weak yen encourage more tourists to come visit.
2) high tech environment ensure no less standard of living than in Europe.
3) fairly lax laws on prolonged stay and foreign entity property ownerships drove more assets acquisition in Japan.
Japan has been cleverly de-coupling from China since 2010s, the rest of the world can learn a thing or two from it. One thing admirable about Japan is that it has, almost all the time, navigated global geopolitics excellently hence why it is still a world power, from the Meiji Era up to today. Japan’s quite resourceful given the very limited resources it has
[A lesson for the West? Japan was better prepared than most for China’s rare-earth mineral squeeze](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/rare-earths-japan-more-prepared-than-most-for-chinas-mineral-squeeze.html)
[How Japan Beat the US in Cutting Rare-Earth Dependence on China](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-30/how-japan-beat-the-us-in-reducing-rare-earth-dependence-on-china)
[Japan reduces reliance on China with rare earth-free magnets](https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15970256)
[EV magnets by Japan’s Proterial do not need heavy rare-earth metals](https://asia.nikkei.com/business/materials/ev-magnets-by-japan-s-proterial-do-not-need-heavy-rare-earth-metals)
I can see that in quite different ways. Like even in defense. If the French-Germany-Spain FCAS remains a shit show and won’t be completed till 2050-ish. The UK-JP-ITA co-developed GCAP will become the backbone of Europe’s AirPower in the next 10 to 20 years.
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