>>520416691 (OP)
May nips correct me if I’m wrong
But Japan is not in decline, other than birth rates.
Outside of Tokyo and a few other highly westernized urban areas, the way of life has not much changed. Rural areas were deserted long ago, but were only localized centers of the pure working class in the first place. Rural Japan has seen population decline because there is no reason to industrialize further. Food can be imported and the farmer class no longer truly exists. Thus those living simple lives can continue to live simple lives. Those that wish to live in high population centers can. Don’t forget there’s large populations of ethnically pure Japanese (I forget the exact term) living in the islands of Hokkaido etc that never experienced large ethnic change stemming from the times of warring samurai clans
Even now the dense urban centers and tourism are only effecting themselves. Outside of Tokyo and in general most Japanese are not bilingual with English, and even then it’s similar in “fad” with weebs as fashion and hyperstylized cultural riffs
Japan will see more and more influence from the also highly westernized Korea in the near future rather than the west. Plastic surgery and K-pop, more culturally relevant than baseball.
