[justin66]

I'm not as skeptical, but there's no doubt the South Koreans and Taiwanese are ridiculously fierce competitors. On the other hand, however alarmed you are at the inefficiencies the Japanese take on because of their cultural priorities and quirks or their demographic crunch, there's no denying that SK and Taiwan have some big potential and actual issues.

I feel like I'd be going beyond my expertise to comment heavily on this but I'm pretty certain all three countries are going to look rather different twenty years from now. Makes predictions hard.