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 ...

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.

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 ...