Terrie Lloyd, founder of Dai-Job and well-know foreign entrepreneur in Japan writes:
" Although Japan is nominally a capitalist democracy, in
fact it has been run for the last 50 years by bureaucrats
who are obsessed with having the State control and retain
the nation's wealth. Indeed, their activities make Japan
look more socialist than countries whose stated political
system is socialism."

Given that Japan has risen from the ashes of defeat to become the world's second largest economy, I would imagine that some countries will be extremely envious of Japan's socialist bureaucrats!