"Gross National Cool" as Japan's foreign policy

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masamania.com
Japan advised to promote "Gross National Cool" as foreign policy
AFP via Yahoo! News - Dec 13 9:10 AM
With its films and cartoons drawing strong followings abroad, Japan should promote its "Gross National Cool" as a tool of foreign policy, experts advised Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...more...

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Tool for foreign policy?! Cartoon drawings.......

[Taro Toporific]

masamania.com
Japan advised to promote "Gross National Cool" as foreign policy
AFP via Yahoo! News - Dec 13 9:10 AM

SOCIETY ''Nike Is Watching Shibuya.''
TOKYO, Jan. 11, Kyodo -
....Nonfiction writer Hideki Kiriyama reveals that Nike Inc., the world's largest sports and fitness company, is secretly keeping a close eye on Tokyo's Shibuya district, a favorite hangout of the capital's youth, in ''Nike Is Watching Shibuya.''
According to Kiriyama, Nike always bases its product design on insight that enables it to connect with consumers. The casual product sensibility and taste for bright colors seen in the street fashion that fills the cities of modern Japan, he says, are known as ''J sense'' and have attracted not only American designers but also young people and children in Asia.
Kiriyama asserts that Japanese ''cool,'' which involves improving Western designs and colors in a Japanese style, such as by adding transparency or sheen to cosmetic products, is unmistakably beginning to win the hearts of people all over the world.

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That's why we love Japan, don't we..?

[mas]

American companies looking to Japan for new fashions? I'll believe it when I start seeing girls over here wearing a skirt over their jeans...

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American companies looking to Japan for new fashions? I'll believe it when I start seeing girls over here wearing a skirt over their jeans...

Hate to say it but it's common enough in 'Merica.
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