"Survivors don’t expect or even hope to be rescued" (parte II)

Parte I.
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Acerca dos que usam a terminologia da década perdida:

"I came to Japan in February, for the first time in a number of years, to visit a country I enjoy but also to find out about those “lost years”—ten, and now twenty.
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What lost? Why lost? Where Are These Lost Years? If, as a returning visitor to Japan, you expect to see some evident manifestation of these lost years, you may be surprised. During two weeks in Tokyo, Kamakura, Kyoto, and the Oki Islands, what I saw was a clean, stable, wealthy country. The cars are recent, the stores are lovely, the restaurants remain wonderful, the people are as pleasant and accommodating as ever. Most strikingly, coming from what North America has become, everything works in Japan - everything I encountered just works marvellously well. No evident lost years here."

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