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>Without the accords Japan could've recovered.
You're so densely packed with nationalism that you can't even see the truth in front of you. If the plaza accords never took place Japan would have still ended up in the SAME FATE.
Your major issue was that your built up the largest asset bubble in modern history and it popped. The plaza accord didn't cause that and it didn't prevent that nor did it prevent you from recovering.
The reason why Japan never recovered is because the BoJ kept kicking the can down the road by becoming the largest purchaser of equities and eventually providing near zero interest loans to large financial institutions (aka, printing money and developing the largest debt to gdp ratio on the planet) to prop up your markets. This is the leading cause of your stagnant economy (aka the lost decades) and its the reason why Japanese have stagnant wages and loss of purchasing power. Maybe read up on the topic instead of regurgitating bullshit from youtube videos.
>America is also directly responsible for tearing the semiconductor industry away from Japan and handing it over to TSMC.
Look takashi, you guys fucked up semiconductors out of typical japanese hubris. While everyone was using equipment from ASML/KLA/Lam/Applied Materials/etc. to build the leading edge fabs, Japan thought it could build superior equipment domestically so you guys doubled down on Cannon and Nikon lithography equipment only to then find out it sucked and by the time you knew it was a dead end you were too far behind your competitors to reverse course.

Stop trying to blame the US for japan's own fuck ups.