captain_spalding said:

SCIENCE said:

party_pants said:

from about the mid-90s, after their real estate boom and crash. In 1965 they were still doing well, and until about the 1980s people were talking about Japan overtaking the US as the world’s largest economy by the turn of the century. It never happened of course, and Japan has massive structural problems they can’t fix.

like being stuck on small islands

Yeah, a lot of people still remember the last time that Japan tried to fix its ‘massive structural problems’.

well

it worked to a point