Japón

Todavía me acuerdo cuando a fines de los 80 de hablaba de la "nueva potencia mundial", Japón, que en muy poco tiempo le pasaba por encima a EEUU. Bueno, parece que después de 15 años Japón dejó de lado el estancamiento y vuelve a la senda del crecimiento. Espero que no sea otra falsa alarma:

NO COUNTRY in modern history has moved so swiftly from worldwide adulation to dismissal or even contempt as did Japan, in a process that began more or less as the temple bells were tolling in the new year of 1990. In the 15 years that followed, amid crashing stock- and property markets, mountains of dud debt, scores of corruption scandals, vast government deficits and stagnant economic growth, Japan mutated from being a giver of lessons to a recipient of lectures, all of which offered recipes for its reform and revival. Those lectures, although received politely by a newly self-deprecatory Japanese elite, seemed to be ignored. Now, however, the time for lectures is over. Japan is back. It is being reformed. It is reviving.