At one point in time Japan was predicted to overtake the United States but eventually its golden economy would come crashing down and experience three decades of stagnation. Now after years of nothing the value of the Yen has crashed. What will happen next? This episode has been researched by our friend and podcast editor James! Check out his channel here https://youtube.com/@DrivenMental?si=-vuxq0l_Bi6L-FYS sources: https://www.britannica.com/money/economy-of-Japan https://apnews.com/article/japan-economy-2023-gdp-893d53deba654c4924e4924f0b321cc5 https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/03/19/why-japans-economy-remains-a-warning-to-others https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=JP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-23/the-weak-yen-and-japan-s-fragile-turning-point-explained https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/abenomics-and-japanese-economy https://econreview.studentorg.berkeley.edu/the-japanese-economic-miracle/ https://www.history.com/news/post-wwii-us-japan-occupation-allies https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/a04003/ https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseupr/2022/01/26/the-miracle-of-japanese-economic-growth-after-wwii/ https://www.ft.com/content/b0f94a04-eab8-46eb-ac07-f9fe66dc6b09 Tavel with me Travel to Germany with me https://trovatrip.com/trip/europe/germany-and-austria/germany-with-steven-bell-nov-2024 Subscribe to my channels and let me know what more you would like to see. We organize games through discord: https://discord.gg/BJsRA6UpXx Twitch https://twitch.tv/stakuyi Podcast: https://historyofeverythingpodcast.com/