Беглый просмотр/поиск информации на тему "国の借金" или "Japan national debt" выводит следующее:
Japan's Debt Clock
http://www.takarabe-hrj.co.jp/clock/Japan's Runaway Debt Train (2001)
http://www.oftwominds.com/japan.htmlhttp://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Japan+national+debt&btnG=Search+NewsFor 50 years, the government has followed the same worn out policy of
running up the budget deficit. The politicians spend money that they
do not have for public works that they do not need. As a consequence,
Japan has accumulated a national debt that equals 170% of the GDP, the
highest level among the industrial nations.
The policy worked, until the bubble that they created burst in 1990.
Now, it doesn't work, and they have nothing new to offer to change the
situation.
The result will be more of the same. It will remain the same, until
some foreign events sends a shock wave through Japan. A dramatic
decline in the dollar, sky rocketing oil prices, a severe contraction
of the Chinese economy or a dozen other events will impact severely on
the Japanese; and it will be beyond their control. They are unable to
initiate any new policies to resolve the economic trap that holds them
and are slow to react to outside forces. Without any hope that the
Japanese economic miracle of the 1970s and 1980s will return, the
Japanese investor is looking elsewhere for the future.
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Japan among first victims of dollar hegemony
Despite its industrial prowess, the Japanese economy was among the
first of many victims of dollar hegemony, a monetary virus created by
the US dollar, a fiat currency since president Richard Nixon took it
off gold in 1971, continuing to assume the status of the key reserve
currency for international trade while falling more than 50% against
the yen through the 1970s.
US-Japan trade became a game where the United States produced fiat
dollars at will while the Japanese produced real goods that dollars
could buy at a dysfunctional exchange rate. The more Japan earns in
trade surplus with the US, the more real wealth leaves Japan for the
US through dollar hegemony.
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Japan's long-term gross national debt of US$7.4 trillion amounted to
160% of its gross domestic product (GDP) of $4.6 trillion in 2006. It
was the highest of any Group of Seven (G7) nation and more than twice
that of the US, which was at 67%. Japan has been unable to use
sovereign credit to meet effectively the investment needs of its
private sector. As a result, it looks to international capital (mostly
from the US), money (more than $2 trillion) that really belongs to
Japan, having earned it from export. Despite residual protectionism,
Japan has been selling increasingly larger stakes in its supposedly
successful industrial enterprises to US transnational corporations and
financial institutions while it holds about $1 trillion foreign
reserves denominated in paper dollars.
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Создается ощушения присутствия на Титанике.... Интересно, что будет с этой страной через 10-20 лет? И как мы будем к ней относиться?
Сдается, что вся Япония привратиться в 夕張市(ゆうばりし)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%95%E5%BC%B5%E5%B8%82