The Japanese are becoming older. Americans are also becoming older. Demographic stress in Japan, measured by the … dependency ratio (DR), is currently about 0.64. In the immediate pre-WWII era it was even higher because Japan's total fertility … note I simulate the DR under various conditions and make comparisons with the US. Japan has experienced a large increase in …

that Japan imports less than other countries, but also exports less than other countries. Relative to the U.S., Japanese … export performance is half as strong today as it was in the mid-1980s. Bilaterally, Japan's normalized imports from the U ….S. are greater than U.S. normalized imports from Japan …