>Lost their robotics, shipbuilding, rockets, nuclear, construction, machine tool, chemicals, lithography, software, semiconductors, electronics, hydrogen, biotech, aviation industry>Failed to venture into any new technology for the last 30 years, all their remaining tech companies are decades old giants that are just coasting along on their old reputation and inertia>They are not even bothering to try to develop new tech, there's basically zero activity in the Japanese A.I industry for example>Even their education and R&D system is shit, with Japanese universities falling and falling behind in the rankings every year, this days, it's rare to find a single Jap uni in the top 50 of various rankings>The Japanese government has no plans to reignite innovation their only response to the crisis for the last two decade is to blame China/South korea for their decline and trying to import even more and more jeets>All while their main regional rivals, China and SK, are racing ahead at full speed at all the emerging technology of the future. Japan is decaying hard. Technology is sole reason why they're relevant, and they're rapidly falling behind in literally every front. Otherwise they have nothing else. Their demographics and geography are shit, , they have very little farmland or natural resources and they're surrounded by nuclear armed enemy states. Tech is the sole reason why they have been so successful over the last century, and they're basically losing everything across the board. There's basically zero areas of the cutting edge that Japan is leading in. Taiwan has TMSC, SK has Samsung and Hydinx, America and China has dozens of leading edge companies in basically every field, even Europe has Airbus, Deepmind and ASML. Japan has....Even their cultural exports are falling behind SK and China. At this rate, Japan is gonna to become a 3rd world nation within the next 20 years, alongside the UK. The next thailand, only relevant as a tourism and sex resort.
>>521458448>Even their cultural exports are falling behind SK and ChinaThe latest Demon Slayer outsold James Gunn's Superman
>>521458615Superman was kinda a flop so... China still has a long way to go, but I would say that SK has handily surpassed Japan. Jpop used to very big, same for live action J-movies and J-drama, Korea has completely eaten those markets up. Both for the public and the critics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Ranking_of_Scientific_Papers_for_World_UniversitiesI'm not kidding when I say that japan's education and reaseach base is fucked. More than anything else, the basic R&D base depends on your universities more than your tech sector. Japan used to be neck and neck with America and Europe in the 80s, but it's completely fallen off
Japan is a has been like UK and russia
>>521459437Yeah, but people keep sucking them off like they're some kind of great power
>>521459740They're considered a great power because in 30 years of decline they've drifted from being the second wealthiest country on earth to the third, and there's zero sign they'll ever fall to fourth place unless India becomes a superpooperThere might have been a shot for Germany to take that #3 slot but German official policy seems to be "total German death, we shouldn't even have a Germany anymore, fuck us" - no factories, no electricity, no crops, no mines, nothing but refugees
>>521460018That's just because everyone else is doing badly. If you actually look at the numbers, their GDP hasn't grown at all in those 30 years. Their tech decline is just getting worse and worse as chinese companies are starting to eat up bigger and bigger chunks of the Japanese market share. And btw, germany did indeed suprass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)Just goes to show you how bad it is in Japan right now, that even germany that shot itself in the foot dozens of times, seems to be doing better than them.
>>521458448>At this rate, Japan is gonna to become a 3rd world nation within the next 20 years, alongside the UK. The next thailand, only relevant as a tourism and sex resort.sexpatbros are eating good.
>>521460321I gotta tell you that this is an actual surprise to me. I don't want to be the typical kind of 4chan asshole coping and seething but it's really suspicious that they claim on that page that German GDP is up 500 billion dollars over the last two years but I wanna thank you for your insight because I am very tired of shitposters who don't know what they're talking about and have no interest in learning anything.
>>521460980Like I said, feels like most people keep over rating Japan for some reason.
>The next thailand, only relevant as a tourism and sex resortI've been saving money all my life for that. Ohhh boy here we gooo.
Thats right. Abandon anime and watch tron ares.
>>521463122Jared sucks
>>521458448Manufacturing plants are simply moving to countries with lower labor costs.In the near future, they will similarly shift to India and Southeast Asia.That's the nature of manufacturing.Japan avoided the race to the bottom on prices and shifted toward higher-value-added businesses.For example, camera sensors for smartphones haven't been stolen by neighboring countries yet.Also, semiconductors produced in Asian countries cannot be made without Japanese materials and equipment.These aren't products sold directly to consumers, so they don't need much advertising and are simply less well-known.
>>521458448quick open the border for the best and brightest brown enganeers like me
>>521458615>cartoons are importantLOL
>wahhh japan sucks japan sucks!>from singaporeso i guess they rejected your visa application? kek
>>521464991>Also, semiconductors produced in Asian countries cannot be made without Japanese materials and equipment.Lol America fucked you hard on this. After America blocked exports of this niche semiconductor equipment and materials to China, this forced China to produce their own photoresist and equipment. They're already starting to export them out too. Look forward to losing another market sector
Anime is the only thing they got now and it's getting pozzed.
