>Lost their robotics, shipbuilding, rockets, nuclear, construction, machine tool, chemicals, lithography, software, semiconductors, electronics, hydrogen, biotech, aviation industry
>Failed to venture into any new technology for the last 30 years, all their remaining tech companies are decades old giants that are just coasting along on their old reputation and inertia
>They are not even bothering to try to develop new tech, there's basically zero activity in the Japanese A.I industry for example
>All while their main regional rivals, China and SK, are racing ahead at full speed at all the emerging technology of the future.

Japan is decaying hard. Technology is sole reason why they're relevant, and they're rapidly falling behind. Otherwise they have nothing else. Their demographics are shit, their geography is also shit, they have very little farmland or natural resources and they're surrounded by nuclear armed unfriendly states. Tech is the sole reason why they have been so successful over the last century, and they're basically losing everything across the board. There's basically zero areas of the cutting edge that Japan is leading in. Taiwan has TMSC, SK has Samsung, America and China has dozens of leading edge companies in basically every field, even Europe has Airbus, Deepmind and ASML. Japan has....

Even their cultural exports are falling behind SK and China. At this rate, Japan is gonna to become a 3rd world nation within the next 20 years, alongside the UK. The next thailand, only relevant as a tourism and sex resort.