HANOI -- Vietnam's growing ranks of middle class and wealthy consumers are falling for pricey, flashy products made by Japanese companies during Japan's bubble economy of the late 1980s and early '90s.
A server poses with a can Sapporo Premium Beer in Vietnam. According to U.K. research company Euromonitor International, there were about 100,000 Vietnamese households with annual disposable incomes over $75,000 in 2013, up threefold from five years earlier.
