Refers to cheap credit based asset bubble economy [Archived Nikkei Asia]. The terminal phase of which is high inflation and currency crisis. The Yen declined in value recent years some 30-40%(?), supposedly. Although inflations is only 3+%? One social side-effect is Social Withdrawal hikikomori [Archived Nikkei Asia], or 引きこもり in Japanese. Also my new tribe, hoping to find a t-shirt for it that I could wear to represent, never to be seen by nobody, of course.. Perhaps relevant for some around here.