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What if things don't go quite so pear shaped for Japan in 1990?
Maybe the government doesn't agree to alter the value of the yen to keep the US happy and it introduced some sane taxes (even today Japanese VAT is something like 3% iirc).
In short...how could we get one of the central features of cyberpunk to hold true, a Japan that just keeps rising and what would the impact of a strong, confident Japan through the 90s and 00s be?
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