So, the question is: Did Japan’s Lost Decade end because of the Credit Boom of the 2000s, or was the malinvestment of the late 1980s finally processed through the economy in a more or less healthy way? If the former, I wonder whether they are about to start another Lost Decade…
Probably it never got rid of the malinvestment:
“Japan’s economy in quarterly dive”
"Mr Yosano said the government would consider new stimulus measures to aid the economy. "