> But there is one defining element of Japanese culture that has
> successfully replicated itself everywhere in the global North -- and in
> most nations of the global South with the exception of Cuba, Iran,
> Venezuela, and perhaps a few others -- though not due to any conscious
> effort to export it on the part of the Japanese ruling class.
> Which aspect is that? That is utter indifference to republican virtue.
It looks like the Great Neoliberal Ice Age is melting fast, though. To paraphrase Marx, the proletariat has no republican virtues to realize, only developmental states to win.
-- DRR