Rory Stewart

The Japanese economy really, really matters to the world.

Final thought.

I think we need to watch carefully the geopolitics, and this maybe relates to the question from our listener.

She is very clearly going pro-Trump.

She sees herself as a disciple very much of Shinzo Abe, who Trump liked a great deal.

She will be taking a more nationalistic line against China.

We really have to watch this question on the constitution.

Is she going to change the constitution to allow Japan to become a fully militaristic power?

And if so,

This is the big change because for decades now, Japan was pacifist economic powerhouse under American security umbrella.

If she shifts it to an assertive, more militarized nation state,

semi-autonomous, then I think we're in a very different world.

Very few.

There's a few Kurds living in some town.

Well, they've got slightly more than that.

And she claims in her hometown of Nara that she saw a tourist punch a deer in the deer park.

Oh, I know.

Median age in Japan, about 51.

Median age in Britain, about 40.

Median age in Europe, higher.