Scenarios about 'japanese economy'
The economic system and development of Japan, particularly its remarkable transformation from post-WWII devastation to becoming the world's second-largest economy by the 1980s. Japan's economic history features distinctive elements like the zaibatsu/keiretsu corporate structures, export-oriented industrialization, government-business cooperation, and the asset price bubble of the late 1980s followed by the "Lost Decades" of stagnation. In alternate history scenarios, Japan's economic trajectory offers numerous divergence points for exploring different global economic power distributions.
What If Japan's Bullet Train Network Expanded Differently?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Japan's shinkansen system followed a different expansion path, fundamentally altering the nation's economic geography, urban development, and transportation culture.