静かな午後、コメダ珈琲の木の香りに包まれながら、Hamish McRaeの『The World in 2050』を読み進めた。
この書は、人口構造や技術革新、地政学の変化がどのように世界を再編していくかを描いた一冊だが、特に「Japan – The Elderly Pioneer(高齢化先進国・日本)」の章は深く考えさせられる。
ハンドルを握るたびに思う――未来は遠くの話ではなく、今日の選択の積み重ねなのだ。かつては " JAPAN AS NO.1"と呼ばれた日本の元気はもう a thing of the past 過去の遺産なのだろうか・・・
“Japan as Number One” comes from Ezra Vogel’s 1979 book Japan as Number One: Lessons for America, written at a time when Japan’s post-war economic miracle had made it the world’s second-largest economy. During the 1970s–1980s, Japan’s manufacturing efficiency, education system, and social cohesion were admired globally. It symbolised a model of capitalism that combined discipline, consensus, and innovation — particularly in the automobile and electronics industries.