While so much anxiety has been built up surrounding Europe, Japan’s troubles have kind of slid under the radar.
There are some serious structural problems with the economy and demographics which are creating an unsustainable situation in terms of their indebtedness. Fortunately they do have the ability to print their own currency which should help quite a bit. Here is a link to a video where Gary Schilling sheds some light on what is going on:
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