-3 countries that influences to Japan by historical facts.-
South Korea: Japan occupied once and there are arguing about South Korea's injury from Japanese dominant.
China: Japan also occupied once and from that time to still now the two countries have a Senkaku Island Ownership dispute.
USA: Japan is an ally of USA after WW II. Okinawa was the place for terrible fighting at that time, so it has sad memories a lot. And still Okinawa is military base of USA and then sometimes protestant actings occur.
Japan x South Korea
-Korean wave
Japan has experienced huge Korean waves two times. The first Korean wave was 2004. The Korean Drama, Winter Sonata, was big hit in Japan and 50~60 women were crazy about Korean stars. At that time, Korean wave was old women's stuff so young generations were not interested in it at all. Then in 2005~2010, the number of watching Korean drama was increasing constantly then some K-pop groups are coming into Japan. One part of young generations are starting to have some interest about Korean music. Finally, in 2010~2011, this is called 2nd Korean wave. It includes both of K-drama and K-pop. This is like kind of social phenomenon. The word of K-pop was expanded quickly and many broadcast stations competently made special program about K-pop or k-stars. Naturally, wave is calming down after some times, and from 2012, K-pop was forgotten by social. But still there are core fun of Korean culture, so I can say there is still Korean cultural soul in Japan.
Japan x China
-United movies
These two countries sometimes make united movies. One of succeeded movies is Red Cliff in 2008. The origin of movie is the Chinese old stories, The romance of the three Kingdom. So the director, many actors or filming place are almost China, and also language inside the movie is Chinese. But it also includes Japanese actors or staffs. In addition, it was published in both countries at almost same time. It means this is united movies. Japan and China are making movies together because their history's relation is really deep.
-China is famous about imitation of Japanese stuff in Japan. Their imitation is so accurate that everyone is laughing at that, rather than angry. The expansion of imitating is so big, like from Animation character to Clothing shops. More funny point is that their way of pretending is really rough and Chinese people don't feel guilty about that at all. I can say this is one of funny relationship between Japan and China.
Japan x USA
-Japan is ally of USA after defeat of WW II. The biggest relation is Okinawa and USA. Okinawa was the actually fighting place of Asia & Pacific theatre of WW II and dominated by USA. It has many sad memories about war here and still is one of military base of USA. Then sometimes protestant actings occur even now a days.
-I can say the huge connection between Japan and USA is Internet. In Japan, twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are so famous and the center of Internet life. Every companies are from USA but there are also Japanese version, like Amazon Japan or Facebook Japan. It reflects cultural difference. The difference between Japan and USA is so huge that these companies needed to make Japanese branch to satisfy the Japanese people. For example, in terms of Facebook, the privacy setting was born in FB Japan. Japanese people hate the total exposure of their information, then FB Japan started the privacy setting service. This is also expanded all over the world now. I think the relationship of Japan and USA is really good balance inside of internet world.
* An extraction from Presentation on February 6th, Friday.
-China is famous about imitation of Japanese stuff in Japan. Their imitation is so accurate that everyone is laughing at that, rather than angry. The expansion of imitating is so big, like from Animation character to Clothing shops. More funny point is that their way of pretending is really rough and Chinese people don't feel guilty about that at all. I can say this is one of funny relationship between Japan and China.
Japan x USA
-Japan is ally of USA after defeat of WW II. The biggest relation is Okinawa and USA. Okinawa was the actually fighting place of Asia & Pacific theatre of WW II and dominated by USA. It has many sad memories about war here and still is one of military base of USA. Then sometimes protestant actings occur even now a days.
-I can say the huge connection between Japan and USA is Internet. In Japan, twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are so famous and the center of Internet life. Every companies are from USA but there are also Japanese version, like Amazon Japan or Facebook Japan. It reflects cultural difference. The difference between Japan and USA is so huge that these companies needed to make Japanese branch to satisfy the Japanese people. For example, in terms of Facebook, the privacy setting was born in FB Japan. Japanese people hate the total exposure of their information, then FB Japan started the privacy setting service. This is also expanded all over the world now. I think the relationship of Japan and USA is really good balance inside of internet world.
* An extraction from Presentation on February 6th, Friday.
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