Princes of the Yen reveals how post-war Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept completely in the dark about it. History is now repeating itself around the world. Based on the book by Professor Richard Werner, a visiting fellow at the Bank of Japan during the crash of the 1990s, during which the stock market fell by 80% and house prices by as much as 84%. The film reveals how the Bank of Japan pumped and then slammed the Japanese economy in order to induce change. Today, what happened in Japan 25 years ago is being repeated in Europe, with the aim of centralizing power in the eurozone.