After the Divorce, I Could Hear the Voice of the Future

Chapter 395: Chapter 392: Tokyo Family Banquet

At half past five, Lu Liang was invited to Shitamaku District.

Since last century, Shitamaku District in Tokyo was known as a famous affluent area.

During the real estate bubble of the ’90s, Shitamaku, along with Muekoku District, led the national property price increases.

Each square meter easily cost over three hundred thousand yen, far crazier than Modu’s current housing prices.

Back then, the saying, “Sell Tokyo city, buy the United States,” was not an empty boast.

That’s what they said, and that’s what they did, Neon People buying all over the globe.

In those years, when college students graduated, it wasn’t companies choosing them, but they choosing companies.

To attract talent, companies would offer thousands of US Dollars in gifts or red envelopes, regardless of interview success.

Those with particularly clever strategies switched between various company interviews daily, earning tens of thousands in a month.

Even housewives, in their spare time, routinely indulging in hundred-dollar afternoon teas, was nothing out of the ordinary.

Because in those years, not only did the property market in Tokyo soar, but the stock market also skyrocketed non-stop, with a total market value of 600 trillion yen, accounting for 28% of the global financial market.

Banks issued loans liberally every day, ordinary people could easily take out loans worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, finishing with one bank and moving on to another, never short of money or loans.

It was a frenzy belonging to one generation, now it seems, also the last generation’s frenzy.

Then, signed under pressure by the United States with the Plaza Accord, they had been repaying debts from the ’90s until now.

The Ota family owned a detached house, nearly a thousand square meters in area.