Creative destruction

摘要

There is no revolution at the barricades, and on an early-summer Sunday the homeless in Tokyo's Yoyogi park form a polite long queue for the bento (packed lunch) boxes being handed out by a schoolgirl from a local church: the deepest bows come from those at the back who go away empty-handed. Yet as far as the problems of a rich country go, it is hard to exaggerate Japan's.