It's desperately attempting to, yes. However, it will fail, sooner or later, because every single rural city in Japan will soon be like Yubari, and the central

It's desperately attempting to, yes. However, it will fail, sooner or later, because every single rural city in Japan will soon be like Yubari, and the central government can't prop up all of them. The following piece, also on Spike, is much slower/less flashy reading, but nonetheless pretty terrifying. https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/a-city-on-the-edge/ https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/a-city-on-the-edge/