2. Japan mainly relies on product export, but the low-end products are occupied by China products, the middle-end products are competed by Taiwan Province and Singapore products, and the high-end products compete with Korean products, which leads to a sharp decline in Japan's export capacity.
Japan still has great advantages in environmental protection, digital cameras, high-end electronics, environmentally-friendly cars, lathes, molds and shipbuilding. But the unemployment rate is too high and the cost of providing for the aged is too high. It is good that Japan can maintain the status quo.