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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025
Japan has not only suffered from dismal macroeconomic performance over the past two decades, but it has lost its edge in areas of its greatest competitive strength, such as electronics, especially information and communications technology (ICT) hardware Japanese electronics firms have declined by many standard measures of industrial performance, such as market share, exports, and profits.
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15 Vogel, Japan Remodeled, 44-45, 51-61.
16 “Nihon saikou senryaku - Japan is Back” [Japan Revitalization Strategy], June 14, 2013.
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