While it lends itself to the perpetuation of a beautiful and unique culture that may have died off like others before it throughout history, it complicates the problems Japan is facing in the current century: its birthrate is perilously low and its population is rapidly aging in return; its economy still has not recovered from the "lost decade" that resulted from the burst of the real estate bubble at the end of the 1980s; social reforms such as a revitalized justice system have yet to come to fruition; the edge the country once had in manufacturing and electronics is waning rapidly; and the country must once again face a nuclear disaster on its own
While it lends itself to the perpetuation of a beautiful and unique culture that may have died off like others before it throughout history, it complicates the problems Japan is facing in the current century: its birthrate is perilously low and its population is rapidly aging in return; its economy still has not recovered from the "lost decade" that resulted from the burst of the real estate bubble at the end of the 1980s; social reforms such as a revitalized justice system have yet to come to fruition; the edge the country once had in manufacturing and electronics is waning rapidly; and the country must once again face a nuclear disaster on its own