Renan Santos: Japan doesn't necessarily have the greatest footballing talents, but they implemented administrative discipline in their team that made the team, as a whole, perform.
Renan Santos: better, to the point that they recently beat Brazil in a friendly.
A good example of that administrative discipline is the municipal management policy, including mergers of municipalities, that Japan uses in its territory.
Renan Santos: It all started with the city of Yubari, a mining town in Japan that declared bankruptcy in 2007.
Renan Santos: Because mining activity declined, that city simply went broke and the Japanese government needed to do something.