By Iris Laemmerhirt
The omnipresence and recognition of yank shopper items in Japan have prompted an avalanche of writing laying off gentle on varied elements of this cross-cultural courting. Cultural interactions are usually followed through the time period cultural imperialism, an idea that on shut scrutiny seems to be a hasty oversimplification given the modern cultural interplay among the U.S. and Japan. »Embracing alterations« exhibits that this assumption of a one-sided move isn't any longer legitimate. heavily investigating Disney subject matter parks, sushi, in addition to video clips, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt finds a dialogical trade among those countries that has replaced just like Japan within the United States.
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Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows Between Japan and the United States
The omnipresence and recognition of yank customer items in Japan have caused an avalanche of writing laying off gentle on varied features of this cross-cultural courting. Cultural interactions are usually observed via the time period cultural imperialism, an idea that on shut scrutiny seems to be a hasty oversimplification given the modern cultural interplay among the U.
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This attitude echoed the paternalistic stance already employed 100 years earlier by Commodore Perry, and it reduced Japan once again to a child-like state. In America’s Geisha Alley: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy, Shibusawa Nabuko traces the history of JapaneseAmerican relationships after World War II. She explains how the American preoccupation with issues of gender, race, and maturity reveals much about the United States during that time, as the portrayal of the defeated enemy as immature “reassured Americans about themselves and their society” (72).
Needed Japan’s political and economic stability in the Far East” (Kanemitsu 145), concerning exports and imports “Japan was almost totally dependent upon the United States” (Kanemitsu 145). After the occupation, Japan focused on the development and stabilization of its own economy, which led to a spectacular economic growth of the island nation in the late 1960s and 70s and culminated in Japan’s economic boom in the 1980s. S. ] grow into men” (Shibusawa 57). 46 | E MBRACING DIFFERENCES 147), which led to a rival relationship between the two countries.
Disney in Japan Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America ... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. - DISNEYLAND DEDICATION PLAQUE - Every year, thousands of young Japanese people wrapped in blankets queue up for hours to see a special New Year’s show in Tokyo Disneyland, which includes Disney characters clad in traditional Japanese kimonos. Although the New Year’s celebration is the most popular event, it is not the only occasion on which Disney characters are adapted to Japanese culture and the park is decorated with Japanese style banners and lanterns.