The Fujiwara Family matter was merely a minor interlude. Other than making a trip there, it had no real impact on Xu Yue.
After helping Fujiwara Shinnosuke gain greater power, Xu Yue could also use this time to work with the others and devise ways to gather a group of strong people.
There were far more strong people on Japan's main island than in Goryeo, so he could not sweep them all up in one go. It would probably take several rounds.
Before that, however, Xu Yue first had to face this Punishment mission.
Even if he was not planning to stir up trouble, some of the unique abilities in the Punishment mission still caught his attention...
In late-1990s Japan, the country had just gone through its dreamlike bubble, and a bleak atmosphere hung over the entire nation.
The suicide rate remained high.
The former glory of seeming ready to buy up the entire United States was gone for good.
When they discovered that no matter how hard they worked to make money, they would ultimately become another country's cash machine, their fighting spirit suffered a devastating blow.
An air of decadence shrouded the nation.
Japan's GDP was 5.44 trillion dollars in 1995, 4 trillion in 1998, and even by 2015, it was still only 4.3 trillion.
In 1994, Japan had 149 companies in the Global 500, with total revenue accounting for 37% of the Global 500's total. The United States had 151, accounting for 29%. Japan's per capita income was 1.6 times that of the United States, while its overall economic scale was 73% of America's. It could be said to have reached its peak.
Yet afterward, they discovered that all those achievements were nothing more than someone else's cash machine.
Faced with their master's bullying, they had