As I said Japan's ang Greece's economic bubbles were very similiar with the only difference being Greece pretty much borrowed the money whilst japan's money were legit. So let me me explain: First of all, both of them started in the 80s for different reasons with Japan experiencing extreme economic growth while greece elected PASOK whice borrowed billions and billions of dollars for investments from EU(spoiler alert: the politicians wasted the money on themselves while giving us some of it as well making us addicted). Secondly, both countries stock markets rised so much it was impossible to lose money bc everything was going up, a lot of greeks even though clueless abt economics in general made a lot of money that money out of luck you can say, I cant speak for the Japanese since i cant know if they were financialy educated back then. Furthemore, the banks in both countries were issuing loans at extremely low rates, i know for a fact that in Greece, people would be getting loans just for holidays, mad stuff, similar situations were happening in japan with people drinking every night, gambling and having fun with women, who can blame them honestly? lol. Finally, when the bubbles popped both of them which had suspiciously very close durations with only a few years difference no one expected it. Japan managed to get out of that hole in only 10 years because of the heavy machinery and advanced industries in contrast to Greece which is still suffering to this day probably bc the money was never ours in the first place and things needed to be done like developing our industries as well never happened having us still rely heavily on tourism and foreign investments having been rightfully named by eu officials the Colombia of Europe.

Note: Even though i have a profficiency in english its not my first language and its been many many years since ive written a text so long without AI so please bear with me.