The Japanese stock market is on a roll, hitting consecutive 34-year highs this week. The last time the Nikkei 225 index was at Wednesday’s closing level of 34,442 was in March 1990, a few weeks after the bursting of Japan’s property and stock market bubble on the final trading day of the 1980s.
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