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Thank you Richard! I learnt a lot from your articles!!

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Richard,

Thanks for the update. The situation is worse than I was lead to believe. Talk about tragic decline!

Please try to define abbreviations when first used (OECD = Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).

B/r,

William Flanigan, PhD

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Great post - thank you - Kishida writ large IE the ossified government institutions as well as the ridged large hurdles for small business to even start - concentrate any “growth “ into larger existing companies. Who in turn offer no incentive to innovate and actually severely dissuade any “out of the box “ thinking - of course you know all this - but wanted to mention as another deeper concern for whatever Scheme the government put in place

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Shame of failure not also a factor? Yet Korea does relatively ok.

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