What remains of Japan's bubble? The country has never really got out of the rout of its "lost decade" and is sliding away into irrelevance.

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throw-qqqqq a day ago | parent [-]

The Nikkei 225 index is at all-time-highs in August 2025. Highest pay hikes in 30 years, BoJ raised interest rates etc. (sure, both because of inflation, but still).

Things seem to be slowly changing in Japan.

	▲	aredox 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The yen is crashing, there are rice shortages and the country is at 0% growth - before Trump's tarriffs. At this point it is wrong to speak about Japan's "lost decade" - it should be "lost decades".