If firms manage to tailor production technologies, which have been fostered in the severe environment for competition in Japan, and detailed services, such as logistics and retails that have responded to the high requirements of consumers in Japan, to the needs of overseas local markets, there is sufficient room for further raising their profitability.
Of course, it is also necessary to use the energy for growth, captured from overseas economies through these channels, to activate the domestic economy. In years to come, amid the low birth rate and the aging population, Japan will face an unprecedented shrinkage of population that no other country has experienced.