[spawn142001]

Well when the japaneese make a breakthrough in some technology they could monopolize it and become the strongest in terms of economy. Billgates did it, he is selling copies of windows vista for four hundred dollars which is insane for a cd that you put in your computer, but people need operating systems to do stuff like browse the internet none of that is built into the pc hardware, and now billgates is one of the richest men on the planet if not the richest. If the japaneese have such a breakthrough with a technology or a series of technologys that would make something such as colonizing the moon or mars and creating a stable atmosphere for life say 1/100th the cost of what it would be today for example then wouldent people want to take advantage of that people would come up with ways to mine mars and the moon and consume every natrual resource on those planets as cheaply as possible to sell it on earth and become rich they would pay japan great amounts of money to get a hold of this technology, and back to why i predict that japan will become the next big country in terms of economy such as america or what america once was. I predict this because the japaneese are the ones who are going to be smart enough to come up with such a breakthrough that they could monopolize it and people would want it.