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Chinese dynasties, particularly the Tang dynasty, have influenced Japanese culture throughout history and brought it into the Sinosphere. After 220 years of isolation, the Meiji era opened Japan to Western influences, enriching and diversifying Japanese culture. Popular culture shows how much contemporary Japanese culture influences the world. [2]
Since the end of the US occupation of Japan in 1952, Japanese popular culture has been influenced by American media. However, rather than being dominated by American products, Japan localised these influences by appropriating and absorbing foreign influences into local media industries. [1]
1791: The Lady Washington becomes the first American ship to visit Japan. [2] John Kendrick, an American trader, stops both the Lady Washington and the Grace (captained by William Douglas) at Kii Ōshima in Kushimoto, Wakayama, in an unsuccessful attempt to sell sea otter pelts. The encounter becomes the first between Japan and the United ...
The Ogasawara Islands were returned from American occupation to Japanese sovereignty. Japanese citizens were allowed to return. 1969: 18 January: Japanese student protests against the Vietnam War and American use of bases on Japanese soil culminated in a short-lived takeover of University of Tokyo. 1970: 11 February
Nonetheless, Perry convinced them by presenting American goods like the telegraph and sewing machines, and the Japanese responded by showed the Americans good like lacquer boxes and teapots. After Perry visited again in 1854, the shogun opened Japan to foreigners, and give American control of Japanese tariffs to Western countries. [86]
The Journal of Popular Culture xv.4 (1982): 67–74. Cromartie, Warren and Whiting, Robert. Slugging It Out in Japan: An American Major Leaguer in the Tokyo Outfield (New York: Signet, 1992). Dabscheck, Braham (October 2006). "Japanese Baseball Takes a Strike" (subscription required). International Journal of Employment Studies 14.2: pp. 19–34.
Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government administers Tokyo's central 23 special wards, which formerly made up Tokyo City; various commuter towns and suburbs in its western area; and two outlying island chains, the Tokyo Islands.
Between 1946 and 1971, the book sold only 28,000 hardback copies, and a paperback edition was not issued until 1967. [8] Benedict played a major role in grasping the place of the Emperor of Japan in Japanese popular culture, and formulating the recommendation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that permitting continuation of the Emperor's reign had to be part of the eventual surrender offer.