Heisei period

The Diet building in Tokyo

Showa Emperor passed away in 1989 , the period became the Heisei.

The bubble economy business has happened by venture heat to a real estate and a bill in Japan.3% of consumption taxes were introduced.

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the sarin subway attacks in Tokyo happened in 1995 and caused social uneasiness.
A consumption tax was raised in 5% in 1997.

Synchronized terrorist attacks case occurred in the United States in 2001.

In Japan, economic conditions improved temporarily by the uptrend of the export industry.
But instead of feeling of economic recovery in addition to some people , it was told that the arrival of the disparity society.

A Japanese biggest trading partner changed with Chinese financial development in China from the United States of America.

The world simultaneous depression has broken out with the trigger of an American subprime loan.
A sudden credit contraction occurred all over the world.

The Tohoku region Pacific Ocean coast earthquake occurs in Japan in 2011.
A tidal wave caused by this earthquake and Daiichi Fukushima nuclear power plant accident occurred.
Many people lost a house and a job and were in this way forced to life as an evacuee.

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