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in title, tags, annotations or urlJapan's Gross National Cool, By Douglas McGray - 0 views
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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?
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But cultural accuracy is not the point. Less important than authentic American origin is the whiff of American cool.
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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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Daniel Pink to Create Business Manga - 0 views
Daniel Pink on Japan and manga - 0 views
Modern boys and mobile girls - 0 views
Anime creating a domino effect for Japan - 0 views
japanamerica: Dangerous stasis - 0 views
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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.
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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.
Doujinshi Shops are Recession-Proof? - 0 views
In Japan, an heroic collapse - 0 views
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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.
少女マンガにみる「仕事の本質」 - 0 views
Future of 'anime' industry in doubt - 0 views
Cost of producing dojinshi - 0 views
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