ABSTRACT
The Bubble Economy in Japan, which lasted from 1986 until 1991, had a number of systemic causes, primarily related to an ingrained tradition of interpersonal relationships, centered around the Keiretsu, reorganized from the Zaibatsu of the prewar period which were broken up during the Allied Occupation. Two buildings by Kenzo Tange provide the first useful examples. The new Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building houses and tThe new headquarters that Kenzo Tange designed for Fuji Television, along the waterfront in Minato-ku. Hiroshi Hara provides three additional projects of the hundreds by others that may be cited as reflecting the mindset of the bubble phase well into the decade after it ended, which are the Yamato International Headquarters in the Ota district of Tokyo, the 1993 Umeda Sky Building in Osaka, and the Kyoto Station Complex in Kyoto of 1997.
