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By David Pilling
Published: January 5 2011 21:49 | Last updated: January 5 2011 21:49
Is Japan the most successful society in the world? Even the question is likely (all right, designed) to provoke ridicule and have you spluttering over your breakfast. The very notion flies in the face of everything we have heard about Japan's economic stagnation, indebtedness and corporate decline.
Ask a Korean, Hong Kong or US businessman what they think of Japan, and nine out of 10 will shake their head in sorrow, offering the sort of mournful look normally reserved for Bangladeshi flood victims. "It's so sad what has happened to that country," one prominent Singaporean diplomat told me recently. "They have just lost their way."
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