平成元年

1989—1993

The era begins under pearl plastic skies: Game Boys, late-Showa confidence, fax tones, and the last bright surface of the bubble economy.

1994—1998

Kobe trembles, Windows 95 glows, Tamagotchi blinks, and the Lost Decade settles into the room like low television volume.

1999—2003

Broadband enters apartments, i-mode compresses the future into thumbs, and networks begin to redraw private life.

2004—2008

Keitai culture peaks: soft keys, QR codes, train straps, mixi diaries, and a tiny hinge opening onto the internet.

2009—2013

Smartphones replace rituals, feeds become weather, and 3/11 cuts a dark line through the national image archive.

2014—2019

The long exhale: minimal rooms, mature platforms, Tokyo 2020 preparations, and one final spring before the name changes.