【悲報】日本さん、いつのまにか「経済めちゃくちゃ」で人知れず大変なことになっていた・・・

The Japanese Yen has just fallen below Turkish Lira in real effective terms and is now the world's weakest currency. If anyone out there is still peddling the myth that debt doesn't matter because you can always cap interest rates, show them this chart...https://t.co/arqluOwC6i pic.twitter.com/AafJGBcpTq

— Robin Brooks (@robin_j_brooks) May 23, 2026

In the mid 1980s, Japan had a higher (nominal) GDP per capita than France, West Germany and South Korea (>4x South Korea!).

Today, Japan's GDP per capita is lower than all of them. https://t.co/pdvDEzMRwg
GDP per capita (current US$) - Japan, Korea, Rep., Germany, France https://t.co/1J71qotLCx pic.twitter.com/Y3xJ24RruJ

— Good Shepherd (@HoyasFan07) May 23, 2026