1984..
Japan walks into the room like,
“Hey world, hope you’re ready, because we’re about to turn the absurdity dial all the way to Shinkansen mode.”
This was the year where the economy didn’t just boom —
it started cosplaying as a rocket.
Stocks broke records like it was a national sport,
gadgets got so advanced that the rest of the world went,
“Wait… they can do THAT now? ”Fast fashion evolved at light-speed, sushi entered its rebellious teenage arc, and an anonymous criminal somehow held 120 million people in suspense like it was the season finale of a detective drama.