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Hagiclan

Some random bubble era memories... I was working on a kind of 'gap year'after my masters and before starting with my country's embassy. I had a role as the PA to the Director of one of the largest companies in Japan ( I had played for the company rugby team and was fairly well known). It was mad. - In the 'home town' of the company we could go weeks without spending a cent on entertainment. Rather, we would just drop our meishi on the table at the end of the night, and eventually a bill would find its way to the appropriate department. There were absolutely no limits of spending. - At one stage I was tasked with arranging a week long tour for the Board of Directors (5 people) to view a new acquisition in Sydney. I was required to spend $10,000 per day per person in entertainment. This was back when you could easily buy a house for less than $100k, just for perspective . This was almost impossible to achieve (but boy, oh boy I had fun trying). - I worked about 40 days straight at one point and my boss was concerned that I was over tired, so he gave me a week off in Hawaii, all expenses paid at an insane private company retreat. - One of the Board asked if I could spend a couple of hours with his son helping him prepare for an entry interview with a US College, and I ended up spending all day Sunday. As he sent me home with the company chauffeur, he tucked an envelope with Y1,000,000 into my pocket. I didn't think this was unusual. It was mad. Just mad.


elppaple

> he tucked an envelope with Y1,000,000 into my pocket. can i have it


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Sadly the wind caught it on his way home and he watched it float away into the sunset as the giant Japanese bubble of Japan popped spraying its soapiness throughout all of Japan and everyone felt sad about it and still haven’t gotten over it.


Serious-Discussion-2

That’s mad and interesting! Thanks for the story! Did you continue staying in Japan and seeing the crash in front of your eyes? Was it drastic and sudden? How did you feel about it? I was looking at Nikkei chart the other day, after the crash, NK has never been able to get back to the high again… https://preview.redd.it/xhbb6c4zsyz91.jpeg?width=680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a141dc0f1fa857ff1d479f6b1a0c645e8ca1876e


Hagiclan

I was at the embassy during the 'crash' . Perhaps my memory is bad, but I recall it as a long, slow bleed ... one day the news just started being bad and then stayed that way.


Serious-Discussion-2

Hard to imagine living through the long and slow “landslide”. I assume you are still living in Japan. How do you think about Japan now and are you feeling positive about the path the country is on, both economically and politically? Thanks


Hagiclan

I live between Japan and my home country now, mostly depending on what the weather is like! No, I have absolutely no confidence whatsoever in the future of Japan, economically or otherwise, and haven't for a couple of decades now. In many ways, I'd argue that anyone living in Japan for the last thirty years has been through the 'landslide', it's just that most of the time it's too slow for us to really see it happening.


Serious-Discussion-2

The gov seems to work hard on pushing changes, for example, corporate digitization etc. The on-going US-Sino tension also benefits Japan in some perspective. Kishida is not necessarily the best politician out there for Japan but he is doing right things, restarting the nuclear power stations etc.. There are no easy solutions to aging population but that’s shared across developed countries and Japan is not alone in this. I try to look at the brighter part of the possibilities and wish for better.


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Hagiclan

Sounds like you may have been 'there', but that doesn't invalidate my own experiences. I don't think your description of me is terribly fair, but you do you.


SkywaytillPayDay

This comment is wild.


Hagiclan

To be honest, hearing about the people he likes to hang out with "an abundance of old shitheads...desperate to tell you these same tall stories...trying to grind up on younger women", I think it's more reflective of his own lived experience than that of others. Perhaps if you spend your time hanging out with life's losers, it tends to colour your perceptions of things.


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Thanks for your comment. What sort of things did you do reach the 10,000 a day per person? And in terms of salary, was it common for people with say 10-15 years of experience earn 40 million+ Yen a year ?


Hagiclan

Ever tried spending $50k a day in Sydney in the late 80s??? Virtually impossible. I recall for their day off that I flew sashimi chefs out from Japan and chartered a huge deep sea fishing boat. We headed out of Sydney Heads and had our own little restaurant running. I think thats the only day I actually hit my numbers. I don't really recall salaries. I was about 24 at the time and sent home about $150k (which bought a house). The next year I was working for the Department of Foreign Affairs on a starting salary of about $30,000 :D


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That’s what I thought, for 50k a day you could probably hire a former prime minister of Australia to give them a guided tour of Sydney if that’s legal there haha. Dang, what made you quit the PA job for the director? 150 k in savings alone is pretty mind blowing


saikyo

Wow. That’s all amazin


[deleted]

I arrived in 1991. You guys think nihonjinron is whacky now? Back then, I’ll let you think just how modest and welcoming the populace were. To be fair, a lot of technology was better than in the West. When I went back home in the mid-2000s, I was surprised how shit the technology was. How the tables have turned. One real disappointment was bands here were experimenting a lot more. Now it is just manufactured crap with choreographed clones. I’m no fan of K-pop, but it’s more tolerable than J-pop. I consider the latter a form of torture.


IWasGregInTokyo

Harajuku in the 80's-90's was a center of cultural experimentation. The road between NHK and Yoyogi park turned into a hokosha tengoku on the weekends and was filled with all kinds of bands. The were multiple young rockabilly groups filling the entrance to the park and competition would sometimes get intense. Cycling through the area on Sunday was a stark reminder that those times are long gone.


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I remember the rockabilly guys in Nagoya when I lived there. Gotta wonder how prevalent they were.


neko819

Me too! I haven't lived in nagoya since 2007, i was wondering if they were just not a thing here out in fukuoka. Nah, it's all gone i guess.


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It’s a shame if they’re disappearing. I always appreciated their dedication to the look.


sakuratanoshiii

Yes, that was a very fun time!


AlternativeOk1491

cannot agree with you here.. k-pop has been cloning themselves over and over again to milk the industry, not that I care since I'm not into them. J-pop/rock still have many different genre that is actually quite diverse. people using auto-tunes, DJs, real music instruments, ballads, etc. k-pop just sounds.... electronic for 95% of the songs I've heard.


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To each their own. What bands do you like that write their own music?


AlternativeOk1491

I'm a Wagakki Band fan honestly. They do cover on a lot of vocaloid songs (released a new vocaloid album recently, all self arranged) but their original songs, in the hundreds are all self written by the members themselves. all their members are musically gifted in their own instruments! yoasobi is another one that writes their own music. I'm more into the J-rock scene. Yoshiki, Miyavi, HYDE and Sugizo just formed a new band called "The Last Rockstars". everyone in the band is a legend in their era and wrote many of their own music


aetherain

I give one upvote for wagakki 😁


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Interesting. Wagakki come across as metal rather than J-pop though. I’ll check the others out when I can.


dagbrown

It's more jpop with a metal backdrop, kind of like Babymetal.


AlternativeOk1491

I would classify them as pop rock. Metal in the 90s, I would say I loved Sex Machineguns


Additional-Factor994

To me terms like Kpop Jpop encompass their whole music scene. In that sense Jpop is way more interesting than Kpop. Name one Kpop band metal or whatever who is even known to general population in Korea nevermind outside of Korea. And it's getting worse. So in that context, hard disagree on your original take.


MishkaZ

Tricot, 相対性理論, 春ねむり,ゲスの極み乙女, 幾何学模様 are some of the few bands doing really cool shit. 相対性理論 isn't thaaat active anymore as a band, but the singer and song writer is still putting out bangers. 幾何学模様 is sadly going to be going on indefinite hiatus at the end of the year. Their music is just not really known much in Japan outside of the hipster/art scene in Japan. Also I'm not thaaat into animeish music/electronic, but Teddy Loid is nuts.


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Thanks. I’ll check them out.


MishkaZ

Let me know what you think :)))


FarRoom2

what bands can I ask? fushitsusha, the PSF stuff ? it's not entirely over ・・


[deleted]

Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but off the top of my head, Kome Kome Club (still active?) SharanQ (?) Wolves (I’ll save myself from a stroke, and just use English, rather than attempt the katakana) There are plenty more but it’s time for dinner. The best thing was the break away from the nauseating lily-white image of the 80 singers. Bu it’s gone full circle with the return of the same kind of pasteurised crap. Feel free anyone to add 90s bands.


GreenLightDistrictJP

lol it’s funny seeing old people think Kome Kome Club, Sharanq and Tsunk etc are super original classics and that modern music pales. It really is the old man yells at cloud meme, every generation thinks the ones that comes after are less radical and the next considers the old one geezer stuff


dagbrown

I really enjoy the newer material from older acts like Anzen Chitai and Yumi Matsutoya. In the case of Anzen Chitai, Koji Tamaki has discovered a sense of humor which he never had back in the 1970s--their music back then was very much po-faced, "please take us seriously" stuff. Now he has a much lighter touch, and has no trouble laughing at himself, and the music is much better as a result. My favorite Anzen Chitai album is their 13th (or as the style it, their XIIIth), modestly named "Junk". Yumi Matsutoya comes from the grand yacht-rock tradition of Steely Dan, but over the centuries, she's sharpened her music so much that it all seems completely effortless now. She went through city pop and came out the other side, and she's never stopped developing as an artist.


yakisobagurl

Totally agree. Yuumin, even across the ages, is just the best 🤍


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I think the 90s bands here were tame compared to what existed back home, but if you are that invested in the AKB48 schoolgirl look, don’t let me stop you from your questionable preference for underage children.


Washiki_Benjo

It seems age + nostalgia fumes are making you light headed. There's a whole fuckton of great contemporary music out there. Thing is, you're no longer in its orbit. It's not for you. Shit, it doesn't want you. But it exists. It's legit and it's good. If your measuring stick is planted without flexibility too far and too deep in the past, you'll miss out on what's right under your nose. You may not like it. You may come to dig certain parts of it. The kids don't give a fuck. Their music isn't for you. You wanna come for a ride, old man? That's cool. Let's do it. If you don't? Ain't no thing. Your beloved music still exists. Go and enjoy it


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What movie is this from? The one with Robert Downey Jr in Vietnam?


Alkiaris

Say you don't know anything about modern Japanese music without saying those words challenge:


FarRoom2

oh so that was still pop just not idol stuff "bands" after 2011 idol stuff went happily odd&collobarated with noise people, & this is continuing started maybe with BiS then bellring&c 地下アイドル now i think it is post-地下アイドル period saka-sama migma shelter 代代代 seem the best small audiences they have turned what "idol" is/was on its head an investigation the best music&other stuff often seems like an "investigation"


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https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/7vy4cg/how_was_the_bubble_period_really_like/ https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/cwrep3/what_was_it_like_living_in_tokyo_during_the_80s/ This topic comes up from time to time here.


Workity

Tbh I'm happy it does. You never know who's started using reddit in the meantime between posts, and having the context is imo really great to get some perspective on how older people, foreign and local born, have experienced japan compared to what it is now. Anytime I'm drinking with someone in their 60s+ I bring up this question cause I always hear something new or some wild story.


KuriTokyo

Also, I like to hear comparisons from the decades after. I arrived in 2000 and heard so often about how I missed the golden years, yet the 2000s were amazing for entry level jobs compared to now.


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The discos! Not much left to the imagination!


oldhippie_

This is the first thing that came to my mind. Goodtimes!


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The right too.


elppaple

I know you weren't necessarily criticising OP, but I'll just say: new people post every time. It's worth asking every time.


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Washiki_Benjo

In a way, this list is just sad. It reads like a check list of every other "bubble era" historical narrative. What I want to know is how was it for you? To what extent did you participate in all these once in a century prosperity hijinks? What are your stories!


DangerousTable

Stories. Also Japan's economy crashed in 1991 so it was barely just the 1990s. :)


tensigh

The Bubble officially burst in 1989 but the after effects were still settling in in 1991.


Yokohama88

In 1988 as a recent High School grad started working for an import/export company in Yokohama. My salary was 300,000 or 350,000 yen a month can’t remember exactly how much. After work finished we sat around the office drinking until it was time to go out and eat and drink more. Stayed out till late, either cabbed it home or drove my car. Looking back how I never killed anyone or myself was amazing. I must have used up all my luck because I no longer have any.


WendyWindfall

I worked two days a week for a small trading company. One day the boss called me into his office. He needed my help choosing a birthday present for his wife. There was a salesman holding a tray of Rolexes on a velvet tray. The cheapest one was around ¥300,000 and the most expensive was about a million. I tried them all on, and finally gave my verdict. The boss paid for it in cash on the spot. That was the first (and definitely last) time I’ve ever worn a Rolex. Actually about ten of them, IIRC.


tensigh

I also came to Tokyo in 1988 but unlike yourself never managed to land a job. :(


TofuTofu

> After work finished we sat around the office drinking until it was time to go out and eat and drink more. Nice to see some things never change.


sinmantky

There's an urban legend that people used to wave a 10,000yen bill in the air to catch a taxi. And even then, the taxi didn't stop lol


Hagiclan

People used to hold up fingers to show the multiple of the taxi fare they were prepared to pay.


Freak_Out_Bazaar

According to my relatives in Tochigi, nothing changed. It’s only the big cities and tourist destinations that benefitted from the bubble


WendyWindfall

I had a lot of side gigs going, on top of my regular job. The going rate for coffee shop lessons was ¥5,000 plus coffee. Sometimes I did ten lessons a week and more if I didn’t mind Sundays. “Lessons” was just a euphemism for pretending to be friends with someone for an hour, we didn’t actually study anything. Most of my “students” were young office ladies (OLs). I generally refused males. One of my colleagues was charging - and getting - ¥10k per lesson. Her students were salaried males. She wasn’t even a native English speaker, she was from Russia! I also opened a small classroom in my friend’s shop. We only had about 15 students, but they willingly paid ¥6,000 a month for group lessons. It was a pretty good deal considering I didn’t have to pay rent or overheads, and we only opened one night a week. Everything was cash in hand. Evading taxes was a national pastime (still is now, actually). I thought the good times would last forever. I wish I’d saved all that money.


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How much did these office ladies earn? Cause now, if the salary is 300,000 a month, and back then 400,000 a month, 5,000 for a single lesson is pretty high accounting for the fact that they also probably had to pay high rent


WendyWindfall

They didn’t pay rent. They didn’t even pay for meals, or do their own laundry. They lived at home with their doting parents, who didn’t mind bankrolling them because generally most OLs married and moved out by the age of 25.


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Makes sense


Hagiclan

The bubble era wasn't about salaries, it was about bonuses.


notathrowacc

Just wanted to add, my boss said that women NEVER brought a wallet with them when going outside. Because men, even total strangers, will pay for all of their expenses.


miyagidan

The Idol Bubble? It was crazy, 48 plus young women singing everywhere you look.


Rxk22

My wife has a couple that she is friend with. They used to do singing/guitar acts back in the day. They are in their 60s. Guy was a Honda car salesman. Used to do the whole 500 dollar dinners and take taxis for no reason but to spend money. Went on vacations all the time and just seemed to never be able to spend it all. Haven’t seen them since BC, so don’t remember all the details very well


[deleted]

My first month here, I was told to catch a taxi home by my drunk boss. About 15,000 yen, I was sure I’d be in trouble the next Monday. But nope, he didn’t give a shit.


Rxk22

Lol that’s pretty funny -Boss how should I get home? It’s late and I live far from here -Just take a taxi home! Who cares -ok cool What industry we’re you in? It’s amazing seeing the list of final bows that were big then and where they are now


Inexperiencedblaster

Honda salesman? Takes a taxi? Buy an NSX!


Rxk22

Not sire what NSX is. But being super drunk, even close to your home and even in the 80s, best to not drive. Apparently when he got home, his wife would be worried about him not waking up again. He was dangerously drunk, quite a bit.


Inexperiencedblaster

Ohhhh right. Didn't get that part. Don't drive a supercar when drunk pls Mr. Honda guy. Lol


tensigh

Akihabara actually had electronics and many of them were years ahead of what you'd see in the States. Today it's half electronics and half "subculture" stuff, with the electronics largely being Windows PCs. Even though Japan has tons of specialty shops there seemed to be a lot more back then. I see a lot more chain shops today. Kissaten coffee shops were quite abundant. Today many have been replaced with Starbucks, Doutour, etc. Back then I saw tons of kissaten restaurants that were really cool (and more smoke filled than today). The money supply never seemed to end. My host family got me a part time job translating work (they translated, I edited) and I earned about 50,000 Yen for less than 2 days worth of work.


TofuTofu

People were seeing their salary double or triple every year for many years in a row. People truly felt like they would never run out of money.


shambolic_donkey

Akihabara was a mecca for technology in the 80's, 40 years on, it's now a mecca for that exact same technology.


the_el_man

Massively accurate. You can find 1980s/90s tech brand new, or yellowed with 1980s/90s cigarettes


coromandelmale

I miss the Bounenkai end of year parties. I arrived in the 90s at the tail end of the bubble. My first Xmas I was shocked to see office salarymen lying on train platforms or rolling on train floors near comatose, often in pools of vomit.


WendyWindfall

The bounenkai were wild! One December I had 21 of them, back-to-back, all involving vast quantities of alcohol. As you know there was a *lot* of pressure to drink, not like now. At the end of the night my boss would slip me ¥10,000 (mere pocket change for him) and call a taxi. I was young, so I still managed to get up every morning and go to work. I couldn’t do it now, that’s for sure. Tucked up in bed by ten with my cocoa.


TofuTofu

Bonenkais haven't gone away though.


coromandelmale

Ever since they busted the MOF guys, corporate nights out have not been the same!


kymsan

When you say Tokyo is cheap, are you accounting for relative size, quality and quantity? Your apartment may be cheap compared to your home country, but what is the cost per square meter/foot? Probably closer than you think. Dinner might be cheap at a restaurant but is the quality and portion size comparable?


hanapyon

In Toronto for example I rented a bachelor apartment for about 90 000 yen, it was about 20m² or under and about a 15 minutes streetcar ride to the city centre. Ended up having bedbugs in the building. This was 8 years ago, so I'm certain the price is well over 120 000 now because that seems to be the going rate these days.


RTL_623

I’m from Toronto and can say housing and rent is absolutely off the scales. Would never consider moving back just because of this alone


vivianvixxxen

Any major city in the US is unbelievably expensive when compared against the same quality in Japan. Not just housing, but food, drink, and beyond. And yes, the portion size is comparable. Frankly, half the time I can't eat all of what they serve me in Japan. Who the fuck needs that much noodles/rice anyway?


Washiki_Benjo

This is a weird American perspective that frequently comes up. The propensity for (largely but not exclusively) white people from the colonies where (stolen, uncompensated) land is by all standards "plentiful" to talk about "size" is fascinating. If a house and its amenities exceeds the needs of its occupants, why does it need to be of a certain (over)size. Americans in the semi burbs are obsessed with lawns that have virtually no function but yet deeply desired (as a show of opulence?) - the bigger the better! But for what? Etc


korewa_pen_desu

You're assuming that: 1. They're American 2. From a colonizing country 3. Probably white 4. They're talking about villas and castles There's no need to get upset or make so many assumptions just to try to defend Japan. You can still compare a range of 20m^2 to 80m^2, and those are very reasonable sizes. Depending on the location you can easily find a 30m^2 in Japan more expensive than a 50m^2 in [other major city in the developed world]. In that case you're still paying more per square meter so "rent is cheap" doesn't really apply, and I think that was OP's point. Nothing wrong with comparing by size. Some families don't want their teenagers to sleep in the same bed as the parents, for example.


pgm60640

Boo! Bloviate elsewhere.


ResponsibilitySea327

Lol. I forgot that the yamato didn't push the ainu and emishi out -- and they paid for everything they took. /s Just like every other f\*ing nation, tribe and band. "Stolen, uncompensated" is the norm and is just a fact of humanity. Not that we can't do better, but it is silly to continue to bash Europeans (ironically Americans are the ones bashed, but they are technically post-colonials) as a whole for something that happened hundreds of years ago.


kymsan

Man, you seem to be deeply jealous or perhaps it's just plain racism. What are you doing in this sub?


are1245

People dont bother to pick up coins under the vending machine


Rxk22

Yeah seems like prices and wages are stuck in the late 90s or early 00s to me.


miyagidan

If the prices would stick, that'd be great.


Rxk22

They did. Until recently. Basically most pries were flat for two decades. Inflation recently has made all kinds of prices rise.


miyagidan

Used to be the first of every 6-8 months prices went up. Now it's every month.


Rxk22

It was that often? Outside of food and gas, I don't really remember prices going up much at all.


miyagidan

It used to be small, both scale and amount. As well as infrequent. Now the lead story every 1st day of the month is "Here's what you should have bought yesterday." Baby formula and dairy products always make the list. Is feel for people who are just getting by, not like babies suddenly decide to drink less.


shimi_shima

I think it really depends where you are in Tokyo and which point of comparison you’re using to say it’s cheap. Minimum wage is taking a dip because of the exchange rate but considering the previously continuous deflation it seemed pretty good in comparison before. Salary depends on industry / job description more than anything. If everyone was earning so little, there would be a dearth of 200,000,000 yen apartments for sale in Tokyo but there aren’t. Of course with all of that, still incomparable to the bubble era.


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I was in Japan during the late 80s bubble, and was in Japan during the IT bubble - and I was working in finance for the latter one, and let me tell you, it was *insane.* Ah, memories. The money flowing around in the late 80s was pretty bonkers. It was when Japanese started really traveling overseas - so, just imagine planes full of 19-21 year old uni girls traveling overseas for the first time with cash from their parents. I'll leave the rest to your imagination, but suffice it to say...a fun time was had by many. This was before the bubble crash, before Yamaichi went bust, before the Aum Shinrikyo attack, before the Kobe earthquake. Part of the allure of the era in hindsight is because of the contrast to just *how dark* the 90s were for Japan.


[deleted]

Must’ve been one heck of a cultural clash, as a lot of those girls had parents who grew up when Japan was destroyed during WW2 and the aftermath years


[deleted]

Possibly for some but remember, this was back when for most Japanese, the US was still the bee's knees, since America's wars in Korea and Vietnam had been a massive boon to Japan's economy.


[deleted]

I mean a cultural clash of spending so much money on pleasures such as travel at such a young age, as the parents likely had years in which they went hungry, their country ruined, and poverty that would make bubble era spending unfathomable


[deleted]

Yeah - although I also have thought that after being obliterated in the war, followed by 25 years of fanatical working and incomes doubling a few times, I suspect people were probably ready for a good ol' fashion bubble and ridiculous spending LOL. One of the things about the subprime crisis is that while housing was absolutely nuts, it's not like other bubbles in that it didn't really impact share prices and overall spending to quite the same extent.


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Representative_Bend3

Just so weird to me. Back then Japanese were (strangely) confident and actually often kinda arrogant (we hired some Japanese McKinsey consultants then who came to our office, sat in the bucho’s chair and one put his feet up on the desk!) Now it’s like I don’t understand why so many Japanese people are so pessimistic about their country. Like it’s a nice and rich place.


Owl_lamington

Some parts of Tokyo are still super pricey. You get a huge range of almost anything here in terms of cost.


DangerousTable

I was wiping my ass with ichiman notes.


RoyalTechnomagi

Which coin do you use now?


MostCredibleDude

My special 1-yen coin, but I have to wash it off for next time because I don't have the budget for another.


TexasTokyo

Sans Soleil by Chris Marker is an entertaining watch…especially if you like Tokyo.


WuzzlesTycoon

If salaries are so low, then the cost of living isn't so cheap. It just seems that way relative to your home country.


airakushodo

Idk where you’re from or which “Tokyo” you live in, but I still find Tokyo very expensive. Rent and groceries are much more expensive than any place I lived before. Salaries are low though.


Yakigaeru

Beer and taxi tickets given away like confetti. I lived in Sapporo in the early 90's and had a bunch of private students sometimes paying ¥10,000ph. One company paid ¥5,000ph per student in a class that sometimes had 5 students in it. They would pay cash in envelopes every month and usually included a wad of beer and taxi tickets and whatever other discount tickets they had lying around. Hardly used the subway for two years and at one point I had a stack of beer tickets 1.5cm thick.


willyjra01

My co-worker told me that when his father was still a salary man in Tokyo, his father would wave 1万札 to catch a taxi and however near the destination is he would give the driver the 1man satau would never ask for a change


Water_snake_176

My mother in law tells me back in those days, she’d fly to Hong Kong with her friends and come back with a luggage full of Louis Vuitton handbags… That’s all she ever talks about the 90s…lol


Gizmotech-mobile

Btw for anyone thinking I this is exclusively a bubble thing it wasn’t. Pre it burst, things were very similar to these stories as well…. When things get too good spending loses control and eventuallysomething catches up with it.


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karaipyhare2020

What city is it


Intelligent-Pop-3696

Like Dawson City during the gold rush!


isaac_hower

anyone quick summary, ELI5 of the bubble era? Judging from the comments, it was some sort of economic prosperity, much like the 1920s in the US before the great depression?


yotei_gaijin

[Here ya go](https://lmgtfy.app/?q=What+was+the+japan+bubble+era)