Nancy Snow is a senior visiting scholar at the Institute of International Relations in Athens and also Fulbright professor of public diplomacy at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in the city. She is the author of "The Mystery of Japan's Information Power."
China's usurpation of Japan's status as the world's second-largest economy in 2010 marked a moment of deep self-reflection in Tokyo about the country's declining influence and power.
