Princes of the Yen

Princes of the Yen

1h 32m

Stock market crash

Financial market

Princes of the Yen reveals how post-war Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this. History is now repeating itself around the world.

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