Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past

Japan has been in the year 2000 for the last 40 years.

I wonder why

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/04/18/s...

Read this article and agree on many of it's points. Have been here for some years now. If you've read just one of Patrick McKenzie / @patio11's articles on Japanese banking, you'll understand too.