Compared to the west's fall, which has broadly taken a century, and more narrowly, just over half of one, It will be swift and sudden.
The history of Japan is a history of repeating cycles of incredible conservative resistance to change, until a breaking point is reached, followed by rapid, sweeping, top-down change.
Japan doesn't change for the longest time, and then it changes a lot, very quickly. It can do this because like most east-asian countries, it has a collectivist population who are largely subservient to authority.
When their goverment buckles and tells them to love foreigners, they will.
10 years? 20? It's hard to be exact, things are already moving. Already accelerating, even. They'll catch up with the west quickly.
Compared to the west's fall, which has broadly taken a century, and more narrowly, just over half of one, It will be swift and sudden.
The history of Japan is a history of repeating cycles of incredible conservative resistance to change, until a breaking point is reached, followed by rapid, sweeping, top-down change.
Japan doesn't change for the longest time, and then it changes a lot, very quickly. It can do this because like most east-asian countries, it has a collectivist population who are largely subservient to authority.
When their goverment buckles and tells them to love foreigners, they will.
10 years? 20? It's hard to be exact, things are already moving. Already accelerating, even. They'll catch up with the west quickly.