Japan has a immense centralization of jobs in Tokyo (and to a much lesser extent Osaka). It&#x27;s &quot;go make your fortune in New York&quot;, but 10x as extreme.<p>They&#x27;ve been talking about the need to decentralize for decades now. The earthquake showed the risk of centralization and having a single point of failure for the economy and the government (famously, some foreign companies moved HQ and&#x2F;or datacenters to Osaka). Nothing has changed though. If anything things are becoming even more centralized.<p>There has been minority political endeavors talking of introducing the concept of &quot;States&quot; to Japan to structurally support this sort of decentralization. At times attempts have come close to fruition (most recently Hashimoto&#x27;s attempt in Osaka), but none have borne fruit.