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Japan

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

What people on korrents have said about Japan, newest first — 14 positions from 12 people.

FilterEveryone, all time
Who Everyone BPBrian Potter 2 JWJack Weatherford 2 AEAlice Evans 1 AVAustin Vernon 1 DWDan Wang 1 DPDylan Patel 1 LTLip-Bu Tan 1 NSNoah Smith 1 OKOliver Kim 1 OBOlivier Blanchard 1 PLPieter Levels 1 SAScott Alexander 1
When All time Past 1 yearPast 3 yearsPast 5 years
  1. SA

    Scott Alexander quoted

    Our readingThe Japanese sensitivity to impermanence known as mono no aware still shapes how present-day Japan appreciates cherry blossoms.

    Their wordsThis concept is still alive in present-day Japan, where cherry blossoms are viewed with the bittersweet knowledge that their beauty lasts only for a short while.

    ↗Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genjiastralcodexten.com

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  2. 6 days earlier
  3. NS

    Noah Smith quoted

    Our readingJapan's loss of innovation is mostly a finance story: companies can no longer get the cheap plentiful bank loans they had in the 70s and 80s.

    Their wordsIn the 70s and 80s, Japanese companies could get cheap plentiful bank loans to develop new products and explore new markets. Today, they can't. Innovation is downstream of finance.

    ↗@Noahpinion on Xx.com

    innovation

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  4. 6 days earlier
  5. PL

    Pieter Levels quoted

    Our readingMost high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay even high taxes, provided the government does a great job in return.

    Their wordsI think most high skilled Europeans are happy to pay (even high) taxes That is, if the government does a great job like Singapore or Dubai or Korea or Japan and most things work well You pay the government for a service and you get safe cities, great public services and great healthcare back

    ↗Most high-skilled Europeans are happy to pay high taxes if the government does a great job like Singapore or Japanlevels.io

    governmentEurope

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  6. 2 months earlier
  7. LT

    Lip-Bu Tan quoted

    Our readingA government taking a stake in its chipmaker is ordinary infrastructure policy — Taiwan, Japan and Singapore all did it.

    Their wordsJust I explained to President Trump, TSMC when they started they have the Taiwan government as a shareholder. If you look at Japan, you look at Singapore, this is the infrastructure US government get to provide the support.

    ↗Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tanyoutube.com 1st of 16 in this recording

    governmentsemiconductorsinfrastructure

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  8. 6 months earlier
  9. BP

    Brian Potter quoted

    Our readingFactory-built construction has not raised productivity: the countries that prefabricate most, Sweden and Japan, have had flat construction productivity for decades.

    Their wordsSweden, for instance, is often praised for its high adoption of prefabricated construction, but since the 1990s Sweden has had roughly flat construction labor productivity, even as it has made more extensive use of prefabrication.

    ↗Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problemconstruction-physics.com 1st of 3 in this piece

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  10. 4 months earlier
  11. JW

    Jack Weatherford quoted

    Our readingKublai Khan's invasion of Japan failed on its own terms but achieved its real purpose, which was cutting the Southern Song off from Japanese sulphur for gunpowder.

    Their wordsBut there actually, I think there's a very, very good reason for invading Japan. Several. The main one was to cut off the supply of sulfur. They needed it for gunpowder in the South Song. They lost their sources in northern China when they were driven out. They got it from Japan. It was a great source.

    ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 17th of 22 in this recording

    China

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  13. JW

    Jack Weatherford quoted

    Our readingThe Japanese defeated the Mongol invasions; the typhoon only sank the ships afterwards, and it deserves far less credit than it gets.

    Their wordsBut I think Japan had defeated the Mongols. I would say. Japanese deserve credit for that victory. And then the sinking of the ships was more caused by the typhoon.

    ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording

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  14. 6 months earlier
  15. DP

    Dylan Patel quoted

    Our readingThe copyright problem in AI training already has a legal solution nobody is taking: train the models in Japan, where copyright does not apply to training data.

    Their wordsSo, Japan has a law which you're allowed to train on any training data and copyrights don't apply if you want to train a model, A. B, Japan has 9 gigawatts of curtailed nuclear power. C, Japan is allowed under the AI diffusion rule to import as many GPUs as they'd like.

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 31st of 44 in this recording

    energysemiconductorsnuclear power

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  16. 13 days earlier
  17. OK

    Oliver Kim quoted

    Our readingJapanese colonial rule built a far deeper state in Korea than European rule ever built in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Their wordsThe Japanese empire reached far deeper into its colonies than any European empire ever did in Sub-Saharan Africa.

    ↗No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960global-developments.org 3rd of 8 in this piece

    Europe

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  18. 3 months earlier
  19. AE

    Alice Evans quoted

    Our readingJapan's decades of stagnation were caused by its shrinking working-age population rather than by its monetary policy.

    Their wordsThe key difference wasn't policy - it was demographics. Japan's working-age population is shrinking.

    ↗Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world 1st of 11 in this piece

    demographics

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  20. 8 weeks earlier
  21. BP

    Brian Potter quoted

    Our readingCommercial shipbuilding keeps moving to whichever country has the cheapest labour, and America has never been that country.

    Their wordsShipbuilding is labor intensive, and we see a repeated pattern of it moving to countries with low-cost labor: from Britain to Japan, then to Korea, then to China.

    ↗Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?construction-physics.com 6th of 8 in this piece

    ChinaAmerica

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  22. 7 months earlier
  23. DW

    Dan Wang quoted

    Our readingIt is the party's censorship, not any lack of talent, that has made China a cultural underperformer beside Japan and South Korea.

    Their wordsAs I’ve written in each of my previous letters, the party’s strangling of free expression has rendered China into a pitiful underperformer relative to Japan and South Korea in the creation of cultural products.

    ↗2023 letterdanwang.co 10th of 10 in this piece

    Chinacensorship

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  24. 3 weeks earlier
  25. AV

    Austin Vernon quoted

    Our readingAmerican shipyards are unproductive rather than expensive: their workers are paid about what Korean and Japanese shipyard workers are paid.

    Their wordsLabor costs are not an excuse!

    ↗Revitalizing US Navy Shipbuildingaustinvernon.site 1st of 4 in this piece

    America

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  26. 19 months earlier
  27. OB

    Olivier Blanchard quoted

    Our readingJudging by output kept near potential despite weak private demand, Japan's decades of high debt and low inflation reflect a qualified policy success, not failure.

    Their wordsJapanese macroeconomic policy is often characterized as a failure, with the central bank unable to achieve its inflation target, a low growth rate, and debt ratios steadily rising to reach more than 170% for net debt and 250% for gross debt. I think it should be seen instead as a qualified success, with the use of aggressive fiscal and monetary policies to compensate for very weak private demand: Output has remained close to potential.

    ↗Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu 20th of 22 in this piece

    inflationinterest rates

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