Tokyo in the 1980s

So... apparently Tokyo was going off in the 1980s.  The Japanese economy was booming and people didn't really give a shit.  Look at these tiny hotel rooms:

two friendly gentleman at capsule hotel in Tokyo Japan

They invented Nintendo and calculator watches and Voltron (the giant robot warrior dude who is formed when five giant robot lions connect to form his arms, legs, and body.)

Plus Tokyo is basically Blade Runner.

(photo by Matsashi Wakui)

 

Get in where you fit in.

Haruki Murakami also started getting super weird in the 1980s - he wrote Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World in 1985.

Haruki Murakami Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World art by Micah Lidberg(art by Micah Lidberg)

 

And.... they were watching TV on their phones 30 years ahead of schedule:

Domo arigato, amigos.

 

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