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Comment by kevin_thibedeau

2 days ago

There was a lot of anxiety in the US over Japanese buying everything up in the 80s. Just wait it out. The US will collapse its economy like Japan.

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watersb  2 days ago

Japanese bought Rockefeller Center in New York City in the 1980s.

That was when it felt like we were "Turning Japanese". It was great and scary and crazy and we wrote cyberpunk stories.

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