The author says: unemployment is low in Japan and poverty is growing.<p>A normal person would think automatically that wages are low or&#x2F;and public spending in automatic stabilizers is low.<p>It seems a professional economist prefer more exotic explanations.<p>It&#x27;s specially puzzling that Japan government prefer to buy financial assets that invest in their own people when, both, rates are very low and they are suffering deflation.<p>But, of course, that would be redistributive and, even worst, it could work and create a bad precedent.