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Japan has too many socio-political peculiarities for lessons to be translatable to other democracies. Especially when it comes to politics, its nearly a one party state with LDP having governed more than 50% of the time since the founding of the democracy.

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"The LDP has been in power almost continuously since its foundation in 1955—a period called the 1955 System—except between 1993 and 1994, and again from 2009 to 2012. In the 2012 election, it regained control of the government." – Wikipedia

I’d also argue that Japan’s culture and the much lower immigration rate are huge confounds when trying to extrapolate to the US specifically.

I agree, they emphasise social cohesion alot more, things start falling apart without growth in the US pretty fast.

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