I suspect most countries would prefer Japan's problems to their own.
An alternative view might be that the excessive returns in the US are due to outright financial manipulation using share by backs funded by low interest rates (amongst other things) leading to an insane concentration of money in the stock market and financial sector to the detriment of large sections of US society, its basic infrastructure, and its democracy.
This is what happens when white collar crime is institutionalised.
Indeed. In the US corruption has been legalised. For example healthcare - in a corrupt third world country you might expect to hand cash under the table in order to see a doctor. In the US, that cash goes over the table.
high cost itself is a likely outcome of corruption, but insufficient evidence to demonstrate corruption.
The high cost of health care in the US is due to a large number of factors, one of which is lack of transparent pricing, anti-competitive practises in insurance companies, and lack of public-purchasing power for health care. Very little is due to "corruption".
An alternative view might be that the excessive returns in the US are due to outright financial manipulation using share by backs funded by low interest rates (amongst other things) leading to an insane concentration of money in the stock market and financial sector to the detriment of large sections of US society, its basic infrastructure, and its democracy.
This is what happens when white collar crime is institutionalised.