Embracing Differences
Subtitle: Transnational Cultural Flows Between Japan and the United States
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9783837626001
Description: The omnipresence and popularity of American consumer products in Japan have triggered an avalanche of writing shedding light on different aspects of this cross-cultural relationship. Cultural interactions are often accompanied by the term cultural imperialism, a concept that on close scrutiny turns out to be a hasty oversimplification given the contemporary cultural interaction between the U.S. and Japan. ¿Embracing Differences± shows that this assumption of a one-sided transfer is no longer valid. Closely investigating Disney theme parks, sushi, as well as movies, Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt reveals a dialogical exchange between these two nations that has changed the image of Japan in the United States.--