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Disco's back: Japan grooves to bubble beat for Heisei era sayonara

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By Chris Gallagher

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What eighties tracks suit Japan in 2019?

Fade to Grey?

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What eighties tracks suit Japan in 2019?

1980, Turning Japanese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWWwM2wwMww

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The disco era never left Japan. It's still alive and well.

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I hit the Maharaja last night. Every woman within a hundred yards of me was hollerin' "Here comes the Boss" - and Bruce Springsteen was nowhere to be seen. WOO! WOOOOOOOO!

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@wtfjapan

1980, Turning Japanese 

Why? Just because "Japanese" is in the title? How original.

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A dude told me that he was making around 1 million yen a month as a Jr. High English teacher during the bubble. Can anyone here confirm that this was the salary in those days?

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Heisei started in 1989. I thought disco reached its popularity height in the 1970s.

If so, Japan was 10+ years behind ...

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Here in 1989 I was an English teacher and I made 150,000 per month.

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I returned to Japan in the summer of 1990 after having been away since 1986 and I was stunned at the transformation in those 4 short years. Truly a different vibe!!

And the discos at that time were truly something else, fueled by a fun-loving desire to have a good time!! The people that probably most appreciated the feeling of that era were the people that had grown up in Japan as youngsters in the '70s / '80s, because it was just such a huge change for Japan!!!

And then it was over, just a few short years later, with the massive hangover that followed! However, the memories of that era, the couple of years I experienced, are still with me and they are largely fond memories.

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"Back then everyday was fun. It was a gorgeous era. Nowadays things are a little plain," she said before hopping on the elevated stage to strut her stuff.

Yes it es fun. In Roppongi there was the Regency disco, (don't know if it is still there", there was Que (a den of eniquity), and Tsubaki House in Shinjuku. Tengu Restauraunts all over town, And I forget the name of the 12F restauraunt / disco in Kyobashi. Even at that height you felt that you were on the top of the world.

We would dance all night and get the first morning train home.

Days gone forever, but it's great to relive them again for a few days.

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