Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo.

We are not a vassal state of America or any other country. We Japanese are poor propagandists, as you well know. That is why we are misunderstood. “We Japanese regard Manchuria as the life line ...

These are very poor numbers, especially with more than 6.5 million PS5 consoles in Japan. Sales on Xbox Series X/S didn’t even make it into the top 30, with fewer than 1,000 units sold.