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Shutting Out the Sun : How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation Brooks/Cole Meera Atkinson's friendship transcends pubescentThe worlds second wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut