TIMELINE JAPAN | 1987 - What Happened in Japan in the 80s?

Here we are, my friends: late-80s Japan.
The sunset of one of the strangest, most beautiful, and most eventful decades in modern history. And this nostalgic train we’re riding? Not slowing down!

This year brings political shake-ups, one of the most ambitious airport construction projects ever attempted, a VHS tape that had thousands of Japanese driving their cars sideways, a catastrophic blackout that plunged Tokyo into darkness, the debut of what might just be the most bizarre adventure Japan has ever produced, one of the most underrated GAME CONSOLES Japan has ever produced… and the release of a fantasy that was ANYTHING but final. And despite what I literally just said a minute ago about trains not stopping — we’re also marking the end of a railway operation that had shaped an entire nation for more than a century!

All of that — and a whole lot more — is waiting for you in TIMELINE: Japan 1987. So buckle up for a wild nostalgic ride through a year where confidence was sky-high, the future felt unstoppable, and the cracks were just STARTING to show.


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CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
01:41 - Pluspy
04:00 - Kansai International Airport
05:48 - NTT
06:50 - JNR becomes JR
08:24 - COMMERCIAL 1
09:04 - City Hunter
09:33 - Japan’s First F1 Driver
10:56 - Hirasawa Sadamichi
12:50 - See The World By Train
14:27 - Tokyo Blackout
16:10 - Hachikō Monogatari
16:48 - Kishi Nobusuke
18:19 - Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure
19:43 - MJ arrives in Japan
21:29 - COMMERCIAL 2
21:54 - PC Engine/Turbografx-16
23:38 - F1 returns to Japan
26:36 - New Prime Minister
28:32 - Final Fantasy
31:27 - Outro