Daisuke Nakajima and Jeffrey Korzenik’s “How America Can Bring the Japanese Economic Miracle Stateside” (op-ed, June 6) doesn’t take into account work ethic. The U.S. has embraced victimization and ...

On my first morning in Tokyo, a barista in a café near Ueno Station served my coffee with a big smile and two short bows. The cashier was just as kind and patient, though I do not speak Japanese.

That was Japan’s new far-right Prime Minister’s victory speech vow. Sanae Takaichi was talking about how she’d lead her own party. Not reform the nation’s notoriously long work weeks. But the comments ...