NEW YORK — Since 2001, under the guise of "reforms," the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has adopted Bush's undemocratic dogma of market fundamentalism — dysfunctional deregulation, privatization and corporate money games. Such dogma destroyed America's financial systems, social safety net and manufacturing, and ushered in the Bush depression crisis of 2008.
By then, Bush-dictated "reforms" had also weakened Japan's economy and society so severely that this country could not withstand the global repercussions of the Bush depression.
From 2001 to 2008, LDP-Bush reforms pushed Japan's per capita GDP from fourth in the world to 20th. The mathematical skill of primary to high school students fell from first to 10th in the world. Their science literacy fell from second to the 6th in the world. The national language literacy fell from eighth to 15th in the world. Today, Japan's suicide rate per 100,000 people is twice that of the U.S. Japan's suicide rate among the elderly is the highest in the world.