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Lost Decades, a Rare card
The Lost Decades are a lengthy period of economic stagnation in Japan precipitated by the asset price bubble's collapse beginning in 1990.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 68
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Lost Decades quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Lost Decades card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Debt levels continued to rise due to the Great Recession, the 2011 Tōhoku ______ and tsunami, and the COVID-19 recession.
Answer
earthquake. Debt levels continued to rise due to the Great Recession, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and the COVID-19 recession. From the Lost Decades article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The Lost Decades are a lengthy period of economic stagnation in Japan precipitated by the asset price bubble's collapse beginning in ____.
Answer
1990s. The Lost Decades are a lengthy period of economic stagnation in Japan precipitated by the asset price bubble's collapse beginning in 1990. From the Lost Decades article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Gothic language. Gothic language 87 · Lee Trevino 79 · Lost Decades 72 · Roy Clark 69 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The term Lost Decade originally referred to the 1990s, but the term expanded as economic troubles continued in the 2000s and the 2010s.
- From 1991 to 2003, the Japanese economy, as measured by GDP, grew only 1.14% annually, while the average real growth rate between 2000 and 2010 was about 1%, both well below other industrialized nations.
- Debt levels continued to rise due to the Great Recession, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and the COVID-19 recession.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lost Decades article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 68: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Lost Decades
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lost Decades (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NTMA, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
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