- Japan began tighten interest rate in December 1989. While stock dropped, because interest rate in the Japanese system doesn't affect the housing market, the housing market did not calm. In fact - the Japanese sees stock dip and housing market not dipping, they quickly conclude that the Japanese housing market can never dip
- Stock began dipping in the 1990s and the housing market followed the trend in 1991. However, the Japanese don't even realize the Japanese market is in decline while it is in decline
- When president Bush puked on the Japanese PM and the Japanese PM had to help the American president, the thought in most Japanese's mind is "Japan is now more powerful than the US"
- In the 80s, Japanese student studied abroad in mass. Today, the population of Japanese students in the US is so abysmal, it's listed under "others"
- Strange things: author believe strange things ought to stop eventually. By strange things, author mean the when people work hard yet can't afford to live well, whereas others who can just seemingly use financial wizary to make a killing. Such event can't last long because they'll eventually run out of people to work (people would just all begin to do financial wizary)