70 Years of Good Times -Japan's Youthful Days of Enthusiasm- From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, Japan was entering a period of rapid economic growth. Alongside this economic expansion, technological innovation flourished in Japan, leading to a surge in motorcycle exports. As more motorcycles were exported, people around the world came to admire large-displacement, high performance Japanese motorcycles. Motorcycles gradually became more popular with Japanese youth, and once the oil crisis of