National / Media | BIG IN JAPAN Apr 14, 2018
Japan faces up to the prospect of losing a middle-class war
by Michael Hoffman
Modern middle-class life, you could reasonably argue, generates more happiness among more people than any other ever conceived. It has been extravagantly derided — as bourgeois, soulless, spiritless, narrow, boring, mindlessly acquisitive and so on. But back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, ...