*Yes? No? It was once an economic powerhouse second only to the United States, and its companies, products and technological innovations ruled the international business community and attracted a huge consumer base. Picture generated by Meta AI However, after a series of events brought about by policy and economic factors, a drastic crash of its markets and economy resulted, and deflation and stagflation kicked in, marking the beginning of the so-called Lost Decade in the early 1990s. Later, the term had been pluralized to include the decades of 2000s and 2010s (i.e., Lost Decades). The extension of the lost years was due to the subsequent natural and market disasters such as the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, and the COVID19 pandemic in 2020, not to mention the rise of the Chinese economy and competition. In late 2023, the Nikkei 225 index, one of the two indices used as barometers of the Japanese equities market, began its...