AHC: Make Japan the pre-eminent superpower instead of China

It's essentially heading to being exactly that right now as it was before the 1990-2015 period where China managed an ascendancy that is now fading; Japan just replaced China as the second largest stock market, for example. Japan's economy is almost as large as the Anglo-French economies combined and it matches both in GDP PPP per capita; she also has more destroyers than both of the aforementioned nations combined. The Japanese have also reconstituted their Marine Corps, de-facto admit the "Helicopter Destroyers" are backdoor aircraft carriers and it's been reported they're seeking missiles along with exploring the possibility of an independent nuclear force; this is among other examples of their growing military might to match that of their economic might. Japan also has its own foreign base to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa, which is a serious step in projecting military power abroad.
 
It's essentially heading to being exactly that right now as it was before the 1990-2015 period where China managed an ascendancy that is now fading; Japan just replaced China as the second largest stock market, for example. Japan's economy is almost as large as the Anglo-French economies combined and it matches both in GDP PPP per capita; she also has more destroyers than both of the aforementioned nations combined. The Japanese have also reconstituted their Marine Corps, de-facto admit the "Helicopter Destroyers" are backdoor aircraft carriers and it's been reported they're seeking missiles along with exploring the possibility of an independent nuclear force; this is among other examples of their growing military might to match that of their economic might. Japan also has its own foreign base to combat piracy off the Horn of Africa, which is a serious step in projecting military power abroad.

but on the flipside, they've been stagnant for over a decade pretty much. Their is next to no growth in terms of wages (then again, somewhat common problem throughout the developed world not unique to Japan i suppose).
 
but on the flipside, they've been stagnant for over a decade pretty much. Their is next to no growth in terms of wages (then again, somewhat common problem throughout the developed world not unique to Japan i suppose).

In real terms they haven't; adjusted for demography, real income per-capita actually rose by 1.2 percent a year. In terms of economic growth, they haven't been either really:

Almost everywhere you look in the details of the Japan story you find that the basket case story could not be further from the truth. Just look at Japanese corporations. Virtually without exception they have continued to boost their revenues -- and maintained their employment levels -- in the face of a constantly rising yen. The Japanese car industry, for instance, has continued to make extraordinary gains. Toyota boasted sales in its latest fiscal year to $259.5 billion, more than three times its 1989 total of $84.1 billion. And this in a year when output was greatly curtailed by the earthquake. Nissan meanwhile clocked $119.0 billion, also more than triple 1989. Similarly the rest of the Japanese auto industry has gone from strength to strength. The same cannot be said for Detroit. Ford Motor’s sales last year totaled $133.3 billion, up a mere 44 percent on $92.4 billion in 1989. General Motors’s sales were $150.3 billion, up just 24 percent on $121.1 billion in 1989. Not only have the Detroit companies retreated in the face of Japanese advances in the American domestic market but their European subsidiaries have also long been ceding share, as have such European players as Peugeot-Citroen, Volvo, Jaguar, and, of course, Renault.
 

trajen777

Banned
1. Have china not in WTOWTO
2 have japan invest low end product production in Vietnam
3 have kids have more sex to keep population growth stable and not aging in decline
 
The only way for this to happen is if every country with a population bigger than Japan goes through a viscous civil war which has them lose a significant amount of their population and they also balkanize, making Japan the 3rd most populated country below the dominant successor state to China and India which are desolate backwaters because of said civil war.
 
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