How else do you prime a pump? Austerity has not worked. Should we try magic?

Okay I think we deserve at least one example of what you're talking about for alternative remedies. I mean you're dismissing a Nobel Prize winner and decades of established and accepted theory. Personally, I am very curious and don't ask merely to tell you that you're wrong, I am always looking for ideas out of the mainstream, but always end up back at Keynes or Hayek or some such familiar place.

Krugman's views are retarded. Western Universities have been a font of Keynesian and neo-Keynesian indoctrination for decades now. Whatever that idiot says, the debt does matter.

Japan is going down the plughole. They have a shrinking workforce, a shrinking tax-base, a rising elderly population that are net-spenders of Government revenue and a ridiculously high Government debt:GDP ratio. On top of that, they are governed by psychopaths intent on inflicting a 2%-at-any-cost-inflation strategy where the costs that inflicts are rising costs for their citizens on top of all those taxes he's now paying. The export benefits of yen devaluation are not materialising because their large manufacturers have relocated production to cheaper countries already.

The sooner we stop playing monopoly the better. I think the Japanese people need a bit of poverty to recover their souls and find new purpose. Too many walk around like zombies during the day only finding moments of happiness during the weekends. I truly love the people of Japan, but their is far too much pressure on them to fit into a tiny mold and keep a stagnant routine and it is simply not healthy for the mind or body. Don't get me wrong, it is a world problem that is being worsened by governments that are doing all in their power to revert to old models without unions and without power of the people, but it seems much more set and prevalent here.

That being said, there is a wiff of optimism and renewed spirit brewing in the youth, and the hippies of the 60's are still here living long lifes and bringing back their banners. Reminds me of the US in the early 90's. Still a battle back there, and many of our hippy granny's have checked out, but many of us are stubborn in the face of dickism, if we are good for nothing else we will continue this legacy till whatever ends.

Media projections showed Abe's Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, the Komeito party, on track to win more than 317 seats in the 475-member lower house, enough to maintain its "super-majority" that smoothes parliamentary business.

Market analysts said the outcome would be positive for shares and negative for the yen.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/14/us-japan-election-idUSKBN0JR0N920141214