Amateur filmmaker’s videos are a time capsule of Tokyo in the year 1990

Take a trip back to the metropolis at the peak of the Bubble Era with this fascinating series of candid video montages.

1990 Japan. After 17 years of continuous growth and rapid development, the country emerged from post-war ruin to attain the status of global economic behemoth.

26 years later, Japan’s economic status has diminished somewhat, and though the country remains a cultural and culinary juggernaut on the global stage, the time in which its growth and conquest of the business world appeared inevitable belongs several decades in the past.