D. Japan was innovative and experienced fast technological progress.
Explanation:
Japan is the third largest automovile manufacuring country, has a large electronic goods industry and is one of the most innovative countries in the patent world.
The diffrence between the United States and Japan is the population, while japan´s population is the same as in 2000, United States keeps growing, which makes Japan behind the US.
But the real GDP growth per capita of japan per year is 0.71 while United States is 0.81 percent per year
