Japan's Gross National Cool

[sukebekuro]

Not sure where to put this one, as it's insight and analysis and not news, but I found this article about Japan's global cultural influence from Foreign Policy magazine quite a good read:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_mayjune_2002/mcgray.html

[sukebekuro]

well, my fault for not doing a search, although as you say who knows if one would have picked it up. at any rate, i think it's an article worth posting twice about