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Banyan

Japan's callow opposition

May 14th 2009
From The Economist print edition

THERE is no revolution at the barricades, and on an early-summer Sunday the homeless in Tokyo’s Yoyogi park form a polite long queue for the bento (packed lunch) boxes being handed out by a schoolgirl from a local church: the deepest bows come from those at the back who go away empty-handed. Yet as far as the problems of a rich country go, it is hard to exaggerate Japan’s.…

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