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Soft Power Hard Truths / American anime fans party, but don't pay - 0 views

www.yomiuri.co.jp/...20090320TDY13002.htm

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shared by Nele Noppe on 24 Mar 09 - Cached

The role of the Internet in cultivating communities without generating profits has been amply addressed. On top of that, producers of Japanese pop media are struggling with outdated and self-destructive business models.
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In a recent interview for pop culture news site ICv2.com, Tokyopop founder and CEO Stuart Levy describes his company's initial strategy in 1998 to harness what he calls "the three C's: content, community and commerce." A decade later, he and others in Japan's U.S.-targeted pop industries have been wildly successful at mastering the first two--content and community--but are struggling mightily to complete the triangle.
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Rising Sun Productions :: 8th JapAniManga Night - 0 views

www.japanimanga-night.ch

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shared by Ariane Beldi on 07 Jan 09 - Cached

Ariane Beldi on 07 Jan 09

The JapAniManga Night is much smaller than Polymanga but the main j-pop fair in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It takes place in a former 19th century army building in Winthertur, near Zürich. Everyone there speaks both Swiss-German, English and...Japanese! The event lasts 48 hours non-stop. The organizers also offer 3 types of accomodation (in the rooms of the building, in the local nuclear shelter or, you can also lay in sleeping bag on the floor in the building). With only about 500-600 visitors, the atmosphere is really cosy and a bit like a big family gathering. Quite a different experience from the Polymanga and other huge fairs!

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The JapAniManga Night is much smaller than Polymanga but the main j-pop fair in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. It takes place in a former 19th century army building in Winthertur, near Zürich. Everyone there speaks both Swiss-German, English and...Japanese! The event lasts 48 hours non-stop. The organizers also offer 3 types of accomodation (in the rooms of the building, in the local nuclear shelter or, you can also lay in sleeping bag on the floor in the building). With only about 500-600 visitors, the atmosphere is really cosy and a bit like a big family gathering. Quite a different experience from the Polymanga and other huge fairs!</div>

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What is Manga?: The Influence of Pop-culture in Adolescent Art - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 06 Jan 09 - Cached

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What is Manga?: The Influence of Pop-culture in Adolescent Art

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UNIQLO to Boost Sales of Manga T-Shirts Overseas - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 21 Apr 08 - Cached

Fast Retailing hopes to boost sales of the manga and anime T-shirts by luring more overseas customers who seek after Japanese pop culture as "Japan Cool."
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Nele Noppe on 21 Apr 08

Fast Retailing hopes to boost sales of the manga and anime T-shirts by luring more overseas customers who seek after Japanese pop culture as "Japan Cool."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"> Fast Retailing hopes to boost sales of the manga and anime T-shirts by luring more overseas customers who seek after Japanese pop culture as "Japan Cool."</div>

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Leonardo DiCaprio To Cast Japanese Pop Group SMAP In 'Ninja Scroll'? - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 10 Apr 09 - Cached

A common complaint when it comes to stateside adaptations of classic anime and manga properties has been the lack of actual Asian actors playing lead roles in them.
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In a move that should get the hardest of hardcore anime and manga fans excited, ANN reports that DiCaprio is considering casting Japanese pop group SMAP as main leads in his “Ninja Scroll” adaptation.
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Japan's Gross National Cool, By Douglas McGray - 0 views

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

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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?
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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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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.
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Hello Kitty drives an empire worth almost $1 billion in global sales per yea
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Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Appoints Trend Communicators of Japanese Pop Culture in the Field of Fashion - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 04 Mar 09 - Cached

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has therefore decided to give a few young leaders who are conspicuously active in the field of fashion the title “Trend Communicator of Japanese Pop Culture,” commissioning them to conduct PR and other activities, and asking them to extend as much cooperation as possible for cultural projects to be carried out by Japanese embassies abroad and the Japan Foundation.
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Ms. Shizuka Fujioka: advisor of “CONOMi,” a well-known shop that sells school-uniform-type clothes
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Questionnaire: What don't you want your Japanese girlfriend/boyfriend to find out? - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 02 Mar 09 - Cached

10= How many games, manga comics I have 18.7
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11= How many games, manga comics I have 29.5
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Includes some interesting manga/pop culture mentions.

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Journalist tracks lost pop culture treasures - 0 views

www.yomiuri.co.jp/...20081121TDY13001.htm

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shared by Nele Noppe on 21 Nov 08 - Cached

Y1.ys("dy"); Subscribe Y1.ys2("dy"); AD2.init({ site: 'DY', area: 'BANNER', width: 728, height: 90, admax: 1, banid: 'dy-banner' }); AD2.cAds(); AD2.dBanner();   JAPANESE Home National Sports Business World Features Columns Editorial Top Essay Culture Arts Weekend Book Review The Language Connection Scene Science & Nature Home>Features>DY Weekend Weather DY Weekend  Top THROUGH OTAKU EYES / Journalist tracks lost pop culture treasures Makoto Fukuda / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer For one reason or another, t
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y these works slip out of circulation and fade from view, as if they are cut off from the world, in a series of reports in which he calls them fuin sakuhin, or sealed works.
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Does Pop Culture Inspire Violence? - 0 views

www.complex.com/...s-pop-culture-inspire-violence

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Kinpachi Sensei 7 - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 15 Apr 08 - Cached

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Another interesting dorama. I almost chose this one for the 2007-2008 pop culture lesson but abandoned it (in favor of 'Long Vacation') because the Japanese in 'Kinpachi-sensei' is a little too difficult. Still, it's an engaging series that covers many issues considered hot topics in contemporary Japanese society. Well worth watching.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Another interesting dorama. I almost chose this one for the 2007-2008 pop culture lesson but abandoned it (in favor of 'Long Vacation') because the Japanese in 'Kinpachi-sensei' is a little too difficult. Still, it's an engaging series that covers many issues considered hot topics in contemporary Japanese society. Well worth watching.</div>

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From Anime to Pokemon: Using Pop Culture to Teach About Japan - 0 views

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From Anime to Pokemon: Using Pop Culture to Teach About Japan
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Watch Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese Drama and Movies - 0 views

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For those in the pop culture class who want some more samples of Japanese dorama

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SOFT POWER, HARD TRUTHS / Japan's global power: soft or wilted? : DY Weekend : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) - 0 views

www.yomiuri.co.jp/...20080926TDY13001.htm

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shared by Nele Noppe on 29 Sep 08 - No Cached

In Boston recently, a journalist asked me: Is Japan really doing anything with its "soft power," or is it just a lot of talk
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With a few notable exceptions, the explosion of interest in Japan's pop cultural exports has been ignited by foreigners' passions and sustained by Internet accessibility. The phenomenon is largely demand-driven, a product of quality content being sought and consumed by overseas fans, academics and artists. Japanese pop culture is being pulled into foreign markets far more than it is being pushed.
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(www.animemasterpieces.com), a venture that combines anime screenings with lectures, seminars and study guides.
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The program is the brainchild of Gorgeous Entertainment, a bicultural production company based in New York, and it is supported by the Japan External Trade Organization, t
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Japan culture promotion body launched in Brazil - 0 views

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shared by Nele Noppe on 15 Jun 09 - Cached

 In response to the Japanese Consulate General's call for establishing such a body, Brazilian student groups launched the Instituto Japao Pop Br, or the J-Pop Brazil association, with support from the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a Brazilian government-backed research institute.
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