1980s Japan Panic

After the war ended, Japan achieved a highly successful level of economic growth, which is when the World war 2 ideology of "yellow peril" returned. The US feared Japanese immi The yellow peril narrative fit the narrative of typical cyberpunk media, which is when a savior fights an evil technology corporation. In 1982 in particular, the film Blade Runner premiered and popularized the cyberpunk genre. The setting of the film is a supposedly futuristic dystopia where America has been completely imperialized by Japanese commodities. The popularization of Blade Runner as the precedent for cyberpunk media furthered the yellow peril narrative.