‘Princes of the Yen’ is an excellent book about Japan’s boom and bust of the 80s, loose money policy of their central bank and the lost decades that followed..
There is also a pretty good YouTube documentary on it:
https://youtu.be/p5Ac7ap_MAY?si=P0Y_AyOPqYf-aZ3F nostr:note1g93ac0wvlzppw4cxhultn4zyftjw9jg8yx5gn40t3z6frpmvwrrs77q767
