It’s amazing how this video referred to Japan as overpopulated. How much things can change in 40 years is amazing. Really enjoyed the film thanks for posting this. Peace from the USA
But Japan then like now is still ahead of other countries with robots doing the work, not people. Japan's tech is so much ahead of the rest of the world it is amazing.
@@noreenanthony-tabar2148 You'd be surprised how little actual automation there is in Japan in comparison to other countries these days. During my time there I realized how, despite all the opportunities, they still decide to use human labour where you'd already put machines to do the work. And even if they do put robots somewhere, it's nothing more than a marketing gimmick that is still supported by way too many people. Also, sadly, Japan is slowly getting left behind in terms of many things. IT sector is a huge, uncreative mess, reminding me of 90s, maybe early 2000s. Cashless payments, something that is common in other countries these days, is almost a magical concept to the Japanese (unless you include prepaid IC cards...which are only good for commuting and not much else). I mean, I can easily pay for flowers bought from an elderly lady in any smaller city in Poland, using just my phone, to do a mobile instant money transfer with no additional fee. All done in less than 15s....While at the same time, in Japan, I can't even use credit card or their prepaid IC cards to pay for an entrance to HALF of the cultural places like museums or shrines because REASONS...
Loved this, great to see into early 80s japan. I'd like to see a "Where are they now?" sort of deal. By now, Kentaro is in his mid 40s, Kimura and his wife are probably around 70-ish. Hearing Shinjuku being this up and coming thing made me life knowing how much of a powerhouse of media it is now.
Thanks for uploading. I simply adore seeing these short documentaries filmed way before I was born. Life is truly fascinating. The only constant is change and change is always constant it seems everywhere. I find it unbelievably awesome how our choices and decisions can shape our lives forever. A poor person today, can be a wealthy person tomorrow, and vice versa. Nothing remains the same, and the music has to stop eventually. Nothing goes on forever.
I remember visiting family in the 80s as a kid, it was always just a vast, just mind-blowing experience every time. As a kid that was obsessed with transforming robot toys of every kind, I was in heaven. There didn't seem to be a lot of tourists back then. Japan really seemed to be a world of itself back then. The anime felt like this great secret and it was fun to bring them back to America and just seeing my friends' minds just explode from seeing cartoons that they would *never* show after, like, He-Man. 🤣 I remember playing the Famicom well before the NES debuted. I think that while Tokyo was very clean, there was still a grittiness to it that I can't quite explain. I could go to toy stores and just stare, for *hours* at all this amazing shit that I had no reference for. I loved the trains everywhere and the gatchapon seemed just...better, then.
I lived there in the mid eighties and know what you mean. Rarely saw foreigners and without the internet things like manga, animae and even much of the food was little known in the west. The grittiness reference also rings true …. especially for Osaka Kawasaki and Yokohama which were little rough round the edges as befitting cities with manufacturing at their core.
If it wasn't for anime otaku and certain kinds of gamers, I do wonder how many tourists Japan would get. My desire to travel there happened because I am a car enthusiast, and certain cars caught my attention. It was 1989, and the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo just went on sale. Over there, it would have been known as Z32 Fairlady TT. It was the first time I had ever heard of twin turbo. Turbo already sounded like magic to 80s kids. What was twin turbo but even more magic to a kid? There are plenty of enthusiasts in the USA who like certain Japanese cars. However, few get a desire to travel there.
Yeah if we had to choose one whole country to teleport to another solar system to best represent humans to some inter planetary council ...I bet Japan would handle it best.
I was in kindergarten in 1989. We were told Japan was 10 years in the future. I realized in 2018 that people had at least one picture of Shibuya Crossing when they said it. Now I wonder if that is as honest as selling travel to the USA by showing the Las Vegas strip and Times Square. I got interested in seeing Japan back then. My mom had a 1985 Nissan Maxima and I loved it. A combination of Knight Rider, Tron, and giant mecha is how it was made. It made me want the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo (Z32 Fairlady TT) when it went on sale. To 1980s kids, turbo power sounded like magic. Twin turbo sounded like even more magic to me.
@@ericastier1646 Some parts are. I won't dispute that at all. I try to avoid those areas as much as possible. The dying economy however, that's something they could fix if they somehow managed to stimulate a baby boom to offset the aging population.
What an absolutely beautiful program . Every country should do a snapshot in time like this. But the whole "ayyy don't think so Dianne! " made me laugh my rocks 🪨 🪨 off. "Hello Dianne. "....lol
This is amazing! It's interesting to see that 40 years on, so many things are the same, and yet some are wildly different: the izakayas and hostess bars frequented by the Patriarchal salaryman class remain, and yet social & cultural progress in areas of civic rights and digital freedom have expanded too.
Back when Japan was an economic powerhouse, just before the bubble of the late 1980s. Sadly like all bubbles, it eventually burst and resulted in decades of economic stagnation that continues to this day.
I think about how Japan went from being the country that sold discount junk to the USA to selling all kinds of premium goods. I often wonder what the perception would have been like if the Datsun 240Z and related cars (S30 and S130 Fairlady Z) were not invented.
21:05 that newspaper with the light pen pages of thousands of japanese kanji characters is crazy hah now i see why newspapers only used 2000 characters
The 90s was one of the worse decades for a lot of Asia. Suicide rates were one of the worse in history for japan. The bubble of the golden era in the 80s popped and one of the biggest recession hit and brought a lot of hopelessness to the youth and old alike.
If only my Japanese husband and I are not outpriced to raise a child in Japan in 2023, we would definitely have 3 kids and have a happy family. We don't want to bring a child in this depressing world these days.
That kind of mentality will lead to darkness. Have as many children as you can and contribute to a better world or just let the idiots out-reproduce you and fill the world with trash humans.
Glances of Japanese 80s cars evoke feelings of nostalgia and happiness. On another note, what changed? just a few weeks ago Japan finally discontinued use of floppy disks (-May 2024). Most robots we use now are not Japanese, but European. Use of credit cards is not as prevalent as in the US. Is there a new tendency to resist new things?
Japan in 1980 is golden era everytime is party stock and property promised fast money after bubble burts in 1990 and 1991 evertying is change..but japanese real struggle for dignity and honour ...thanks japan
@@stra9761 The Plaza Accord was the beginning of the Japanese economy's problems, but the bigger issues were Japan choosing to excessively loosen credit limits and lower interest rates to combat currency overvaluation. ColdFusion did a great video on it here: th-cam.com/video/lmnVP35uZFY/w-d-xo.html
@@allentoyokawa9068 They’re still rich but they no longer have the world dominance they once had. This was a time when the US had a fear that Japan would overtake them and Japanese companies would buy out the US economy. The 90s recession and the population decline ended all of that.
Cultural superiority gave the westernized Japan an edge over the West. Japanese culture is all about the unique Shinto religion. Japanese is the culture of Purity. Japan achieved its 1st and 2nd economic miracles by the 1890s and 1980s. Both times the West attacked, destroyed and blamed Japan in the typical Narcissistic Crusader 1st Reich fashion! Because the Western is the Civilization of Narcissism and Narcissists cannot in the shadow of someone better than them. Narcissists are the Masters in mental manipulation and gaslighting. The West is trying to exterminate Japan since the 16th century and won't settle until Japan follows the fate of the extincted by now Ancient inhabitant cultures of American Continent! Japanese are the people who have the Japanese Conscience. The West is obliterating the Japanese Conscience for more than 80 years.
Immigration usually helps the economy so long as the immigrants work and contribute; most do, generally. But Japan isn't very advanced anymore due to its extremely conservative mindset and unwillingness to change.
@@yuyutubee8435 Almost always immigrants are a burden and a lie for oligarch to increase their profits by being landlord slums and fast food sellers anything that profit from a bigger mass while the native middle class suffer. Immigrants especially subsaharan are feral and vermint bringing crime, insecurity, rape and more.
It’s amazing how this video referred to Japan as overpopulated. How much things can change in 40 years is amazing. Really enjoyed the film thanks for posting this. Peace from the USA
But Japan then like now is still ahead of other countries with robots doing the work, not people. Japan's tech is so much ahead of the rest of the world it is amazing.
Even though their population is in decline, its still one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
@@noreenanthony-tabar2148 You'd be surprised how little actual automation there is in Japan in comparison to other countries these days.
During my time there I realized how, despite all the opportunities, they still decide to use human labour where you'd already put machines to do the work. And even if they do put robots somewhere, it's nothing more than a marketing gimmick that is still supported by way too many people.
Also, sadly, Japan is slowly getting left behind in terms of many things. IT sector is a huge, uncreative mess, reminding me of 90s, maybe early 2000s. Cashless payments, something that is common in other countries these days, is almost a magical concept to the Japanese (unless you include prepaid IC cards...which are only good for commuting and not much else). I mean, I can easily pay for flowers bought from an elderly lady in any smaller city in Poland, using just my phone, to do a mobile instant money transfer with no additional fee. All done in less than 15s....While at the same time, in Japan, I can't even use credit card or their prepaid IC cards to pay for an entrance to HALF of the cultural places like museums or shrines because REASONS...
@@DrAhzek cash is freedom
@@agustingonzaloalzogaray79 that would be fine in america but in japan it’s just unwilingness to change, not wish for freedom
Loved this, great to see into early 80s japan. I'd like to see a "Where are they now?" sort of deal. By now, Kentaro is in his mid 40s, Kimura and his wife are probably around 70-ish. Hearing Shinjuku being this up and coming thing made me life knowing how much of a powerhouse of media it is now.
I kind of wonder how many are an an early grave due to karoshi.
their industrial post war journey to an almost militarized peace economy is one of the most incredible stories of human progress
but, Japan has already industrialized before WW2…. there was already stock exchange, lively financial sectors, big corporation even before WW2.
I love them.
I am white 'murican in red 'murica and love them.
We are so similar.
Like Russia.
@ilhamrj2599 you totally missed the part where I implied ww2 destruction. They had to rebuild. That's the journey ...its why I said post war journey
Thanks for uploading. I simply adore seeing these short documentaries filmed way before I was born.
Life is truly fascinating. The only constant is change and change is always constant it seems everywhere. I find it unbelievably awesome how our choices and decisions can shape our lives forever. A poor person today, can be a wealthy person tomorrow, and vice versa. Nothing remains the same, and the music has to stop eventually. Nothing goes on forever.
I remember visiting family in the 80s as a kid, it was always just a vast, just mind-blowing experience every time. As a kid that was obsessed with transforming robot toys of every kind, I was in heaven. There didn't seem to be a lot of tourists back then. Japan really seemed to be a world of itself back then. The anime felt like this great secret and it was fun to bring them back to America and just seeing my friends' minds just explode from seeing cartoons that they would *never* show after, like, He-Man. 🤣 I remember playing the Famicom well before the NES debuted. I think that while Tokyo was very clean, there was still a grittiness to it that I can't quite explain. I could go to toy stores and just stare, for *hours* at all this amazing shit that I had no reference for. I loved the trains everywhere and the gatchapon seemed just...better, then.
I lived there in the mid eighties and know what you mean. Rarely saw foreigners and without the internet things like manga, animae and even much of the food was little known in the west.
The grittiness reference also rings true …. especially for Osaka Kawasaki and Yokohama which were little rough round the edges as befitting cities with manufacturing at their core.
If it wasn't for anime otaku and certain kinds of gamers, I do wonder how many tourists Japan would get.
My desire to travel there happened because I am a car enthusiast, and certain cars caught my attention. It was 1989, and the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo just went on sale. Over there, it would have been known as Z32 Fairlady TT.
It was the first time I had ever heard of twin turbo. Turbo already sounded like magic to 80s kids. What was twin turbo but even more magic to a kid?
There are plenty of enthusiasts in the USA who like certain Japanese cars. However, few get a desire to travel there.
Japan really is something. I think they are one of the most important countries in the world.
Yeah if we had to choose one whole country to teleport to another solar system to best represent humans to some inter planetary council ...I bet Japan would handle it best.
1982...a magical year. So many good things not only in Japan...Akira's Katsuhiro Otomo, good music, films....wow 😊.
貴重な映像ですね！
日本から感謝です✨
I was in kindergarten in 1989. We were told Japan was 10 years in the future. I realized in 2018 that people had at least one picture of Shibuya Crossing when they said it.
Now I wonder if that is as honest as selling travel to the USA by showing the Las Vegas strip and Times Square.
I got interested in seeing Japan back then. My mom had a 1985 Nissan Maxima and I loved it. A combination of Knight Rider, Tron, and giant mecha is how it was made. It made me want the Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo (Z32 Fairlady TT) when it went on sale. To 1980s kids, turbo power sounded like magic. Twin turbo sounded like even more magic to me.
There is simply no place like Japan on earth. It is a marvelous, magical, mystical place.
Taiwan is a great second contestant
@@DatKidJohnny Yes, Taiwan is like India where their industry and middle class can do so much.
In West we should love them. Welcome them!
Oh god. You are talking out of your ass.
It was. Unfortunately it's turning into a tourist zone and a dying economy.
@@ericastier1646 Some parts are. I won't dispute that at all. I try to avoid those areas as much as possible. The dying economy however, that's something they could fix if they somehow managed to stimulate a baby boom to offset the aging population.
Good choice of background music.
Clearly, a real orchestra was used when it was recorded, unlike these days.
Wow, it's so interesting to see what Japan was like before the economic bubble burst.
Amazing, truly. This film is from the early 80s, wonder how much has persevered
What an absolutely beautiful program . Every country should do a snapshot in time like this.
But the whole "ayyy don't think so Dianne! " made me laugh my rocks 🪨 🪨 off. "Hello Dianne. "....lol
This is amazing! It's interesting to see that 40 years on, so many things are the same, and yet some are wildly different: the izakayas and hostess bars frequented by the Patriarchal salaryman class remain, and yet social & cultural progress in areas of civic rights and digital freedom have expanded too.
I wonder how the family is doing now.
Such a beautiful society
Wow, awesome video!
Where is Kentaro?
We must find him.
Back when Japan was an economic powerhouse, just before the bubble of the late 1980s. Sadly like all bubbles, it eventually burst and resulted in decades of economic stagnation that continues to this day.
Back when Japan scared the kuso out of America by economy.
They still do
@@allentoyokawa9068 4th largest, dropped one place. Germany has overtaken the 3rd spot.
I think about how Japan went from being the country that sold discount junk to the USA to selling all kinds of premium goods.
I often wonder what the perception would have been like if the Datsun 240Z and related cars (S30 and S130 Fairlady Z) were not invented.
@@Joshua_N-A Not anymore Germany GDP growth is 0% the ecnomy is falling apart.
新しい技術が高層ビルの街新宿で生まれたなどと言っているが、もちろん携帯やスマホなど、この時代はまだ存在していない。忘年会の余興でステレオコンポが当たり感動で泣いた自分がいた。退職したいまは広辞苑などの大型辞書も買わない。スマホ一台で済んでしまうことが多い。80年代は遠い昔か？
Basically, the 80's were 40 years ago, almost half century, time flows with no mercy.
I feel really sad for Kentaro, in just 10 years when he finally finish university, it would of been early 90's just as the bubble burst.....
First time in japan 1985 in kagoshima sendai since then i love japan
I love Japan
Me too
Nação comunista.
🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
Sadly Japan doesn't love you, too. 😢
@@yuyutubee8435 why is that??? Japan 🇯🇵 doesn’t have many friends.
21:05 that newspaper with the light pen pages of thousands of japanese kanji characters is crazy hah now i see why newspapers only used 2000 characters
古き良き日本。
Still IS good
the 80s and 90s are the golden age of japan
Not the 90's
The 70s & 80s are the golden age of japan. The 90's to Current day are Lost Decades
The 90s was one of the worse decades for a lot of Asia. Suicide rates were one of the worse in history for japan. The bubble of the golden era in the 80s popped and one of the biggest recession hit and brought a lot of hopelessness to the youth and old alike.
Is kimura still around? He making pottery?
Hopefully he didn't lose all his money in the bubble burst.
shrine and temples in Japan were beautiful i wish if i have visited in 89s
They are the same now, except there are now many foreign tourists.
Japan is Japan.
If only my Japanese husband and I are not outpriced to raise a child in Japan in 2023, we would definitely have 3 kids and have a happy family. We don't want to bring a child in this depressing world these days.
The world is doing better than you think
Modern medicine alone is proof enough
That kind of mentality will lead to darkness.
Have as many children as you can and contribute to a better world or just let the idiots out-reproduce you and fill the world with trash humans.
Bringing a kid to the world, shouldn't be dependent on the world current state, because there is only that world and you only live once.
Wow... Little did they know Kobe would suffer in a giant earthquake just 15 years later in 1995.
Glances of Japanese 80s cars evoke feelings of nostalgia and happiness. On another note, what changed? just a few weeks ago Japan finally discontinued use of floppy disks (-May 2024). Most robots we use now are not Japanese, but European. Use of credit cards is not as prevalent as in the US. Is there a new tendency to resist new things?
Japan in 1980 is golden era everytime is party stock and property promised fast money after bubble burts in 1990 and 1991 evertying is change..but japanese real struggle for dignity and honour ...thanks japan
honor*
and the golden era is NOW; and there was no "bubble"
I wonder if famicom released yet 1982
Executives smoking cigarettes during meetings lol
economy stagnated, population is declining, people look glum. things have really changed. i miss the 1980s Japan.
innovation died also in every filed big tech companies are falling japan changed a lot
Mainly because of plaza Accord
Japan was never that innovative. They used to rip off American products shamelessly just like the Chinese do today.
Nothing good lasts long. IMO it is more important for us to live with dignity, regardless of Ups and Downs.
@@stra9761 The Plaza Accord was the beginning of the Japanese economy's problems, but the bigger issues were Japan choosing to excessively loosen credit limits and lower interest rates to combat currency overvaluation. ColdFusion did a great video on it here: th-cam.com/video/lmnVP35uZFY/w-d-xo.html
Ms Kimura speaks good english to her pupils.
When Japan was a superpower
umm they still are lmao
@@allentoyokawa9068 They’re still rich but they no longer have the world dominance they once had. This was a time when the US had a fear that Japan would overtake them and Japanese companies would buy out the US economy. The 90s recession and the population decline ended all of that.
@Kujir2340 Who knows what will happen sir.
Only 2 Godzilla movies 1984 & 1989. 🇯🇵
Japan 🇯🇵 is cool!
25:27 Big massive IBM pyramid! LOL!
Its "IBM Kentoshi Pavilion" and the fair is called "Portopia '81".
And then came the 90’s
What goes up must come down.
Nowadays, 2024, Kentaro must be in your 44-47 years old (my age right now).
As for me, I am thinking India goes this way.
So much more willing to accomdate capitalism. So much chill here.
SMIN
90年代が一番良いよたぶん。
Pre-anime era. This is era before anime conquered Japan and the world.
Good entertainment always conquer the world, just like Hollywood did
It has not conquered me and i lived through the 80's as a kid !
昭和57年かぁ。
@4:29...smoking in meetings...man can't see that here in 'murica
you mean can't see it in 2020s? because people smoked everywhere in early 80s
Cultural superiority gave the westernized Japan an edge over the West.
Japanese culture is all about the unique Shinto religion. Japanese is the culture of Purity.
Japan achieved its 1st and 2nd economic miracles by the 1890s and 1980s.
Both times the West attacked, destroyed and blamed Japan in the typical Narcissistic Crusader 1st Reich fashion!
Because the Western is the Civilization of Narcissism and Narcissists cannot in the shadow of someone better than them.
Narcissists are the Masters in mental manipulation and gaslighting.
The West is trying to exterminate Japan since the 16th century and won't settle until Japan follows the fate of the extincted by now Ancient inhabitant cultures of American Continent!
Japanese are the people who have the Japanese Conscience.
The West is obliterating the Japanese Conscience for more than 80 years.
This was before the bubble burst.
"Japan as Number One" ( +- 1970, by Vogel )
awww people in the comments are not mad about immigration
日本万歳。
Well I would be damn! These guys knew about the virus 40 years ago and told us nothing. 😀
@AfianySnow298oh… you don’t know…
Esse povo comunista.
中国が知っているというなら分かるが日本がCOVID-19について知っていると思う理由は理解できない。
私たちも被害者です。
What makes japanese so advance, is it the less immigrants or the honor?
A little column A , and a little column B . Mayhaps
They should stop making war in other countries so the immigration will stop, no one leaves their own country for fun!
Immigration usually helps the economy so long as the immigrants work and contribute; most do, generally. But Japan isn't very advanced anymore due to its extremely conservative mindset and unwillingness to change.
@@yuyutubee8435 Almost always immigrants are a burden and a lie for oligarch to increase their profits by being landlord slums and fast food sellers anything that profit from a bigger mass while the native middle class suffer. Immigrants especially subsaharan are feral and vermint bringing crime, insecurity, rape and more.
And then Japans ecomony went to hell 😂
こういうことを書き込むのは頭の悪いフィリピン人だな