The year 1990 might not seem so long ago, but for many reasons, and in Japan especially, it was a completely different world. There was no Internet. There were no mobile telephones. There was hardly any way to get up-to-date English information on places ...

Ex-Alien chief picks five phenomena from ’90s Japan that are gone but not forgotten 1. Mind the gap: This satirical advertisement was an idea for helping to reduce Japan’s enormous trade surpluses. The trade imbalance with the rest of the world during the ’90s ...