OSAKA -- The legendary "Juliana's Tokyo" disco, a symbol of the "bubble" economy era of the late 1980s, burst back to life in the Umeda district here on Oct. 26, as it strives to offer those in their 40s to 60s, who experienced the peak of its popularity, a space to relive those glitzy days.

"Juliana's Tokyo in Osaka" opened in the Hankyu Higashidori shopping street in Osaka's Kita Ward in western Japan after Kenji Kanda, a 47-year-old president of a real estate company, sealed a license agreement with a leisure facility firm in Tokyo that holds the trademark rights for "Juliana's Tokyo."

On the opening night, female guests waved the club's famous feathered fans, which were distributed for free on arrival, while dancing on a raised platform reproduced from one used in Juliana's Tokyo. Patron Ritsuko Nagata, 47, a resident of Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in western Japan, smiled and said, "It feels wonderful, it's like I've come back to my old days."

Juliana's Tokyo was launched in the Shibaura district of Tokyo's Minato Ward in May 1991. At its peak, some 2,000 people visited the venue a day and the "body-conscious" dress fad became famous. The disco closed in the summer of 1994 after the bursting of the bubble economy.

(Japanese original by Akihiko Tsuchida, Osaka City News Department)