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Nele Noppe

Japan's Gross National Cool, By Douglas McGray - 0 views

www.chass.utoronto.ca/...japfpmcgray.htm

anime economy fashion manga manga_industry non-academic pop_culture

shared by Nele Noppe on 09 Jan 08 - Cached
  • Japan is reinventing superpower—again. Instead of collapsing beneath its widely reported political and economic misfortunes, Japan’s global cultural influence has quietly grown. From pop music to consumer electronics, architecture to fashion, and animation to cuisine, Japan looks more like a cultural superpower today than it did in the 1980s, when it was an economic one. But can Japan build on its mastery of medium to project an equally powerful national message?
  • But cultural accuracy is not the point. Less important than authentic American origin is the whiff of American cool.
  • Yet Japan is reinventing superpower again. Instead of collapsing beneath its political and economic misfortunes, Japan’s global cultural influence has only grown. In fact, from pop music to consumer electronics, architecture to fashion, and food to art, Japan has far greater cultural influence now than it did in the 1980s, when it was an economic superpower.
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  • At times, it seems almost a strange point of pride, a kind of one-downsmanship, to argue just how little Japan there is in modern Japan. Ironically, that may be a key to the spread of Japanese cool.
  • Hello Kitty drives an empire worth almost $1 billion in global sales per yea
Nele Noppe

japanamerica: Dangerous stasis - 0 views

japanamerica.blogspot.com/...dangerous-stasis.html

non-academic anime manga_industry economy

shared by Nele Noppe on 18 Mar 09 - Cached
  • since the conventional wisdom is that Japan's anime producers are being destroyed by file-sharing and downloading by overseas fans, it seems worthwhile to look more closely at the antiquated and insidiously self-destructive business model in Japan's own backyard.
  • The problem with Japan--and the rest of us, Japanese, half, or otherwise--is that we fear the quality that most emboldens us: change. We don't want to change. We want stasis--trains that run on time, simple ideas, dumb accounts.
Nele Noppe

In Japan, an heroic collapse - 0 views

ftalphaville.ft.com/...in-japan-an-heroic-collapse

non-academic manga economy digital_manga information_manga

shared by Nele Noppe on 23 Feb 09 - Cached
  • SFCG’s chairman, Kenshin Ohshima, a man not known for excessive modesty, had a passion for chronicling - and clearly dramatising - his company’s rise. A long-running online manga, or cartoon, of Ohshima - and SFCG’s - corporate adventures makes the company’s website more popular than most corporate  cyber destinations in Japan.
  • Nele Noppe on 23 Feb 09
     
    company chairman uses manga to chronicle company's story
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