• Did Shinjiro Koizumi become prime minister?
I learned about Koizumi as one of the successive prime ministers.
• What is the legal speed limit for cars?
180 on the autoline.
• Is the currency still the yen? Are bills higher than 10,000 yen issued?
Yen. 100,000-yen bills.
• Even in 2062, are people taught that the Empire of Japan was evil?
I don't remember being taught that it was evil.
• Are the Self-Defense Forces deployed in newly acquired territory?
The Japanese military is stationed there.
• Are the Self-Defense Forces based on conscription or volunteers?
The Self-Defense Forces don't exist.
• What happened to new religions (Soka Gakkai, Happy Science)?
They exist.
• Are Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka connected by maglev as planned?
The whole country is maglev.
• How will the Japanese staple food change from 2010 to 2062? Or will it stay the same?
Rice.
• Is there no famine in Japan, with rice, vegetables and fruit secured?
Mostly imported.
Prime ministers, currency, the Self-Defense Forces, maglev, and food
Posts the future person responded to
[Domestic]
• Is there internet regulation?
• Has the family register system moved to individual IDs?
• Have mixed-race people become the mainstream?
• Has the suicide problem been solved?
• Is Japan's flag still the Hinomaru? Is the national anthem still Kimigayo?
• Will pachinko and consumer loan companies be regulated?
• Does anything major happen in 2016?
• Does the imperial system continue through the male line (patrilineal descent)?
• Will Korean residents in Japan become Japanese? Or did they become Russian?
• How many changes of government were there between 2010 and 2062?
• What happened to Korean and Chinese residents in Japan? Are they still in Japan?
• Did Shinjiro Koizumi become prime minister?
• Are there historically famous prime ministers who came from show business?
• What is the legal speed limit for cars?
• Is the currency still the yen? Are bills higher than 10,000 yen issued?
• Will deposit freezes, hyperinflation or food shortages happen after 2010?
• Even in 2062, are people taught that the Empire of Japan was evil?
• Are the Self-Defense Forces deployed in newly acquired territory?
• Are the Self-Defense Forces based on conscription or volunteers?
• What happened to new religions (Soka Gakkai, Happy Science)?
• Are Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka connected by maglev as planned?
• How will the Japanese staple food change from 2010 to 2062? Or will it stay the same?
• Is there no famine in Japan, with rice, vegetables and fruit secured?
• What are the guidelines in the future for whether something is child pornography?
• Will decentralization advance? Will a regional state system be introduced?
• Which railway lines were built after 2011? Which lines were abolished?
• Are traditional Japanese era names still used in the future? If so, what is the era name after Heisei? If you can't write it clearly, initials are fine.
Answered by the future person: @132 @133