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Bubble economy
Japanese economics
Japanese history
In Japan: Economic change
…to be called Japan's "bubble economy" of the 1980s, which typified an era that combined easy credit with unbridled speculation and eventually drove Japanese equity and real estate markets to astronomical price levels, burst. In 1992–93 this ushered in a deep recession, the severity of which postponed many of…
Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area
In Tokyo-Yokohama Metropolitan Area: Commerce and finance
…to be called the "bubble economy." The expression refers to speculation in general, but most particularly to land speculation and to Tokyo, where land prices have been the most outrageously exorbitant in the country. By the early 1990s, however, overinflated stock and land prices led to a "bursting" of…