الأسئلة الكبرى لليابان: الانكماش والأجور والنموذج الاقتصادي

Abenomics failed to address the structural causes of Japan's economic stagnation despite its monetary innovation.

Japan's corporations hold excessive cash reserves and should be required to invest them or return them to shareholders.

Japan's dual labour market — privileged regular employees (seishain) alongside precarious non-regular workers — entrenches deep inequality.

Japan's minimum wage should be raised to ¥1,500 per hour nationally to address chronic wage stagnation.

Japan should allow more flexible working arrangements and shorten the standard working week to improve productivity and work-life balance.

Japanese women's labour force participation is structurally constrained by discriminatory workplace norms that require legal reform.

Japan needs significant corporate governance reform to make its major companies internationally competitive.