> When a friend and I was on business in Japan we wanted to meet someone at 11pm at night Do you think this is a carryover from the 1980s, when Japan was a wor

> When a friend and I was on business in Japan we wanted to meet someone at 11pm at night Do you think this is a carryover from the 1980s, when Japan was a world-leader in semiconductors and personal electronics? Is the thinking that this culture was the reason? And an attempt to return to the glory days? Or is it more of a social thing? With peer pressure?