For a while now, you've probably been hearing about book bans, how they're gaining.
Momentum everywhere in Texas, in Missouri, Florida and Pennsylvania.
On the Code Switch podcast, we're taking a look at why.
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This is planet money from NPrdemen.
There was a time back in the 1980s when the future looked like it belonged to Japan.
Japanese imports were everywhere.
Japanese steel, japanese cars.
How could Corolla give you so much for so little?
It's just a Toyota tradition.
Japanese electronics, put on a Walkman and see the world in a whole new light had performed an economic miracle.
It had transformed itself into the number two economy in the world, second only to the US.
And it's hard to imagine now, but back then, people in the US were genuinely anxious.
They were like these big Hollywood movies that had Japan taking over the global economy.
Like this one from 1989 called Black rain.
We make some machines, we built a future now, music and movies that all America is good for.
There's also a lot of Japan bashing.
Like literally people would get together and smash japanese cars.
We've got Tim Donovan here taking his.