William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."
The list of nations having a good 2020 is spectacularly short. But Turkey warrants a mention as it observes the Summer Olympics fiasco warping Japanese politics.
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