Tokugawa Japan is famous for its reforestation program as an example of success and pride noted by Pulitzer prize author Jared Diamond in the book "Collapse: Why certain societies choose to fail." It would be nice for Japanese (Nihonjin) to share their opinions of why this is happening. This would be a wise starting point. Japanese are some of the most educated, and well traveled of modern cultures; surely they have an observation on this
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