Gilson sold his production laboratory to a Japanese firm in the 1980s, but production has ceased since ; so did Chatham's, after the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.

Japanese cinema later became one of the main inspirations behind the New Hollywood movement of the 1960s to 1980s.

The 1980s saw the decline of the major Japanese film studios and their associated chains of cinemas, with major studios Toho and Toei barely staying in business, Shochiku supported almost solely by the Otoko wa tsurai films, and Nikkatsu declining even further.

However, as more Westerners were able to view the original version of the film ( especially after its availability on home video during the late 1980s ), and gain access to Japanese publications about the film, the myth was dispelled.

However, in the second half of the 1980s, rising stock and real estate prices caused the Japanese economy to overheat in what was later to be known as the Japanese asset price bubble caused by the policy of low interest rate by Bank of Japan.

In the late 1980s, the Japanese government was making a concerted effort to enhance its diplomatic stature, especially in Asia.

In 1990 Australia accounted for 5. 3 percent of total Japanese imports, a share that held relatively steady in the late 1980s.

Throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, American politicians and business leaders accused MIT and other universities of contributing to a declining economy by transferring taxpayer-funded research and technology to international – especially Japanese — firms that were competing with struggling American businesses.

During the 1970s and 1980s, North Korean abductions of Japanese and South Koreans occurred.

According to Klein, in response to an economic crash in the 1980s ( Latin American debt crisis, Black Monday ( 1987 ), Savings and loan crisis Japanese asset price bubble ), corporations began to seriously rethink their approach to marketing, and began to target the youth demographic, as opposed to the baby boomers, who had previously been considered a much more valuable segment.

In the late 1980s, the Guinea Pig films were allegedly one of the inspirations for Japanese serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki's murders of preschool girls.

* The Transformers, tractor-trailers appear in this 1980s cartoon as the Autobots ' leader Optimus Prime ( Convoy in Japanese version ), their second-in-command Ultra Magnus, and as the Stunticons ' leader Motormaster ( who considers himself Optimus Prime's rival for the title " King of the Road ").

Several Japanese companies produced turbocharged high performance motorcycles in the early 1980s.

This kept the yen weak relative to the dollar and fostered the rapid rise in the Japanese trade surplus that took place in the 1980s.

Beginning in the 1980s, ramen became a Japanese cultural icon and was studied around the world from many perspectives.

The genre covers a wide range of television programming formats, from game show or quiz shows which resemble the frantic, Japanese variety shows produced in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s ( such as Gaki no tsukai ), to surveillance-or voyeurism-focused productions such as Big Brother.

* Rebecca ( band ), a 1980s Japanese pop band fronted by Nokko

However, for the rest of the 1980s as a whole, the Dow made a 228 % increase from the 838 level to 2, 753 ; despite the market crashes, Silver Thursday, an early 1980s recession, the 1980s oil glut, the Japanese asset price bubble and other political distractions such as the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Falklands War, the Iran-Iraq War, the Second Sudanese Civil War and the First Intifada in the Middle East.

* Mikuni, common on Japanese motorcycles, especially in the 1980s.

During the 1970s and 1980s, at the height of his political involvement, Brzezinski participated in the formation of the Trilateral Commission in order to more closely cement U. S .– Japanese – European relations.

This technique, now most closely associated with Japanese kaiju or monster movies, has come to be called suitmation ( originated in the Japanese fan press during the 1980s ).

The Amiga is a family of personal computers marketed by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s.

* 1980s: Accompanying the spread of the personal computer in family homes (" Famikon "), local shops increasingly began to deal in video games, and major gaming chain stores appeared on the market.

The Clintons ' personal and business affairs during the 1980s included transactions that became the basis of the Whitewater investigation that dogged his later presidential administration.

In the 1980s, companies had few people who understood the growing personal computer phenomenon, and so most technical people were given free rein to purchase whatever software they thought they needed.

A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Attempts at introducing a census in West Germany sparked strong popular resentment in the 1980s since many quite personal questions were asked.

Commodore played a vital role in the development of the home – personal computer industry in the 1970s and 1980s.

By the late 1980s, the personal computer market had become dominated by the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh platforms.

As the 1980s began, hard disk drives were a rare and very expensive additional feature on personal computers ( PCs ); however by the late ' 80s, their cost had been reduced to the point where they were standard on all but the cheapest PC.

The Charlotte Observer reported that the Internal Revenue Service ( IRS ) still holds Bakker and Roe Messner, Tammy Faye's husband from 1993 until her death in 2007, liable for personal income taxes owed from the 1980s when they were building the PTL empire, taxes assessed after the IRS revoked the PTL ministry's nonprofit status.

Kermit is a computer file transfer / management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s ; it provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming, and character set conversion across many different computer hardware and OS platforms.

The popularity of MUDs of the Essex University tradition escalated in the USA during the late 1980s when affordable personal computers with 300 to 2400 bit / s modems enabled role-players to log into multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers such as CompuServe.

Next to that, the release also contains a bonus disc of footage from the band's personal archive including 1980s footage from Glastonbury, Rome, Cork, Rotterdam and Toronto.

Somewhat earlier, exploration of mathematical practice and quasi-empiricism in mathematics from the 1950s to 1980s had sought alternatives to metamathematics in social behaviours around mathematics itself: for instance, Paul Erdős's simultaneous belief in Platonism and a single " big book " in which all proofs existed, combined with his personal obsessive need or decision to collaborate with the widest possible number of other mathematicians.

Early personal computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as those from Apple, Atari and Commodore, did not use RGB as their main method to manage colors, but rather composite video.

With the increase in access to personal computers in the 1980s, spaced repetition began to be implemented with computer-assisted language learning software-based solutions.

From the late 1980s through the 1990s, consumer-grade personal computers became powerful enough to display various media.

Consequently, older operating systems, such as those for the mainframes of the 1960s, and those for personal computers of the early to mid 1980s ( e. g. DOS ), generally have no virtual memory functionality, though notable exceptions for mainframes of the 1960s include:

The Apple Lisa is an example of a personal computer of the 1980s that features virtual memory.

* The triode tube ( Audion ), transistor and integrated circuit revolutionized computers, leading to the proliferation of the personal computer in the 1980s and cell phones and the public-use Internet in the 1990s.

A number of other MUDs were created, but remained a computer science novelty until the late 1980s, when personal computers with dial-up modems began to be more common in homes, largely through the use of multi-line Bulletin Board Systems and online service providers.

By the end of the 1980s, word processors and personal computers had largely displaced typewriters in most of these uses.

Set in a chat-show studio in the 1980s, it focuses on Moore's comic and personal relationship with Peter Cook and how their careers took off after the split of the partnership.

In the early 1980s, Le Pen's personal security was assured by KO International Company, a subsidiary of VHP Security, a private security firm, and an alleged front organisation for SAC, the Service d ' Action Civique ( Civic Action Service ), a Gaullist organisation.