Japan’s per capita GDP has been flat for 30 years. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/jpn/japan/gdp-per-capita#:~:text=Japan%20gdp%20per%20ca

Japan’s per capita GDP has been flat for 30 years. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/jpn/japan/gdp-per-capita#:~:text=Japan%20gdp%20per%20capita%20for%202022%20was%20%2434%2C017%2C%20a%2015.08,a%200.93%25%20decline%20from%202019 https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/jpn/jap.... You can describe that as ‘recently’, but it’s an entire generation.