By the 1980’s, Japan had succeeded in creating one of the world’s strongest and most stable economies the world had seen up until that time. By then, many viewed Japan as the model for economic strength and advancement. Many people naively believed that the record level highs that Japan’s stock market and housing market had been experiencing would simply not end. “Back then the Nikkei Average was the bullet train of global equity markets. It seemed unstoppable, at least until the Bank of Jap