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Japan is not usefully described as a Confucian society; the label is applied as a lazy racial category.

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Japan Stagnation, demographics, finance and industry, and what the rest of the world reads into them.

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  1. Noah Smith Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
    In other words, “Confucian” is lazily applied to Japan as a racial category, rather than any kind of a useful description of the culture and society.

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