If Shukan Bunshun and Shukan Diamond are both right, Japan is in serious trouble.
The former says the nation's middle class is vanishing. The latter says the rich are deserting.
The descent into national poverty that these developments imply would be a shattering epilogue to the "Japanese miracle," the postwar ascent from ruin to economic superpowerdom.
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