[Grandpa Saw It!] Part 2: Looking at Key OECD Statistics!

My heart is Gen Z! My body is a Showa-era person past sixty! I am Grandpa, a supporter of Gen Z!?

Often seen in newspapers and elsewhere, the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is an international organization headquartered in Paris, France, with 38 member countries currently.

They publish information quite openly. Let's look at their key statistics to confirm Japan's position and examine both the good and bad aspects of our country.

This is the second part. It will make more sense if you read the first part first.

✅ In the first part, we looked at statistics where Japan is lagging behind!

In the first part, we looked at three indicators from the key indicators above: "average wages," "gender wage gap," and "education expenditure."

When comparing education expenditure per student, the result was that it wasn't as bad as I thought, but when looking at this as a percentage of GDP, the data suggests, "I suppose that makes sense."

At 2.5%, Japan falls into a position that is better counted from the bottom among OECD countries. US 3.2%, UK 3.8%, Germany 2.6%, South Korea 3.0%.
The difference in growth potential must come from the spirit of the 'One Hundred Straw Bags'. I suppose that is what it means.

✅ Should we see Japan as 'Amazing'?

The Medical Association is powerful!
Japan has an overwhelming number of CT scanners installed compared to other OECD countries.
It is truly number one, overwhelming the others.

Healthcare expenditure is also higher than the OECD average.
Healthcare expenditure includes spending on health insurance, final consumption of medical goods and services, personal medical care (treatment, rehabilitation, long-term care, ancillary services, and pharmaceuticals), and collective services (preventive and public health services, medical administration), but does not include capital expenditure.

I wonder how much government subsidy is provided for equipment like CT scanners?

The record for the number of hospital beds in neighboring South Korea is also amazing, but Japan is the number one country in the OECD that is not losing out. How about that? Have you reconsidered your view of Japan?

✅ Is the difference in management ability showing up in the numbers!?

With the world's highest number of hospital beds and the world's highest number of CT scanners, why is it that we have one of the lowest COVID infection rates in the world, yet we end up in a situation where the Medical Association loudly cries 'medical collapse'? Something is strange, isn't it?

Does the word 'Management' turn into the Japanese-English term 'management' and instantly take on the meaning of 'following precedents to protect vested interests'??

In the English-speaking world, management is fundamentally about operations and administration to produce 'results'.

What are 'results'? In other words, while OECD countries are able to clarify their objectives, define those 'results,' and perform the management necessary to reach them, our country is weak in that regard.

They are able to select hospitals that perform medical care using expensive equipment like CT scanners and concentrate that equipment there, avoiding the inequality caused by the superficial equality of placing a CT scanner in every hospital (which leads to medical collapse and an inability to treat patients even with infection numbers that other countries can manage). This is the 'management' that other countries can do but Japan cannot.

In other words, is Japan a nation ruled by men under the control of a few vested interests rather than a nation ruled by law? 😥 And has it been a nation of neglect for 40 years? <Excuse me>

Since such publicly available data exists, a politician is only truly valuable if they formulate hypotheses and work to solve these issues.

But I suppose that's impossible. After all, nothing has changed in 40 years...

That is why Grandpa keeps saying the same thing. Good luck, Gen Z!

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