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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Read one time that "thirty years ago, Japan was ten years in the future. Today, Japan is twenty years in the past."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They've been living in the year 2000 for four decades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Even Conan gave up that bit after only a decade.

https://youtu.be/aScP6QB3Nx8