Japan has clearly had economic, political and financial challenges, along with the 2011 catastrophic tsunami, earthquake and the partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The country has had six prime ministers in the last five years and an increasing debt. Regardless, Japan is an important U.S. trading partner and that relationship influences economic conditions in other countries. Japan is a major foreign source of financing for the U.S. national debt and is expected to remain so in the near future....