#japaneseness

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The dead girl herself! Aiko Miller, but everyone just knows her as "Annie".

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Blog#6 Popular  J-pop in the US and its stereotype

Hi, this is Naoko. At this time, I would like to talk about J-pop, particularly, how popular female singers in the US influence the stereotypes of Japanese, Japanese American and Asian American as well. At this blog,I want to share the critical view to see the popularity of particular female J-pop singes in the US.

To be honest, now I like listing to music of Perfume and Kyary-Pamu Pamu. The lyrics does not have deep meanings in Japanese and mix of some English word, but the song sounds fun. I like the beat of the music of artist, which is really catchy. Also, the dances captures my eyes, too. I was not into these singers before, but my perspectives to see these singers changed after coming to the US. I realised how the style of J-pop well captured the things people out side of Japan expect to  and be interested in. The popularity of these style of music are rely on the demand of  “Asianess” from western world.

I think these J-pop produces know 

“What people in America expect Japanese to be”

“What people in America will interested in”

This is the strategy to earn money, marketing, but we need to stop and think that images have power to spread orientalism,exoticism, sexism, stereotypes.

In the process of J-pop producers trying to capture the attention from people in abroad, they are in the system of reproducing the stereotype of Asian women.

This is my thought after reading this article.

“Label scents global success with Japan band Perfume” 

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-band-idUSTRE8260S520120307

The article tells about how the music producers made perfume successful in global, particularly, in the US, Germany and Britain. The article shows us how Japanese music producers shifted their strategy, which  promotes westernised music, more English lyrics and  Hip hop and R&B style, to music , which celebrate more “Japaneseness” based on their experiences of the fail. The producer states the popularity of  Perfume overseas comes with the futuristic image of japan.

"FUTURISTIC, ROBOTIC, DOLL-LIKE"

The article says:

“Kato said the trio -- Nocchi, Kashiyuka and Aa-Chan -- may learn English over time, enabling them to express themselves overseas, but for now they would play on the image of "mysterious, futuristic, robotic, doll-type girls, well choreographed with laser beams."

But my question is: How and who decide the “Japaneseness” ? What the concept of “Japaneseness” come from ?

What we present as culture on the media is problematic,there are possibilities to spread the misunderstandings and stereotypes. As exchange students, i was so grad that many people in the US recognise Japan and interested in both traditional and modern cultures, but please don’t  rely on the media too much. There are many things you can miss in the way. The best ways to know Japan are interacting many Japanese people and travel around, I believe. 

This is the new sing, “Tokyo girl “released January, 2017 by perfume. I though this is cool, but at the same time, I though we need to have critic eye of see this music video and its performance.

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Opening Up Minds and Borders                           

Japan’s first biracial beauty queen doesn’t see her crowning as a sign the country’s ingrained aversion to immigration is softening.

“Japan is always saying it’s globalizing, but I feel it hasn’t yet dealt with basics such as racial discrimination,” said Ariana Miyamoto, who has a Japanese mother and African-American father. “Things may have changed in places like Tokyo, but if you go into the countryside, things haven’t really changed at all.”

Popular opinion is against opening up Japan to foreign workers, despite having a population that is aging at the fastest pace in the developed world and dying off at a record rate. Miyamoto disagrees with this prevailing view. “We should invite in people from all over the world to share their cultures with us,” she said.

In person, the 20-year-old exudes the same self-confidence that helped her beat 43 others to take the 2015 Miss Universe Japan crown last month. It’s a quality that’s come in handy, given that her brown skin and curly hair made her a target of racial abuse in her native Nagasaki Prefecture and, more recently, on social media. 

Read the full Bloomberg Business interview with Ariana Miyamoto by Kevin Buckland and Isabel Reynolds.

Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg

© 2015 Bloomberg Finance LP

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Neins;Gag - Podcast #1 - Zur Konstruktion von "Nino" auf dem YT-Channel "Ninotaku"

Neins;Gag – Podcast #1 – Zur Konstruktion von “Nino” auf dem YT-Channel “Ninotaku”

Ana und ich haben uns an den ersten Neins;Gate-Podcast gewagt (weitere werden folgen), indem wir uns mit dem Anime, Manga, Game und Japan-orientiertem Youtubekanal Ninotaku kritisch auseinandersetzen.

In dem Podcast zusätzlich erwähnte Personen/Links: http://twitter.com/Hidekii http://youtube.com/FerusDoyle otakutimes.de

Addition (16:11) – Reaktion und Richtigstellungen von Nino:

@Schiggy69Schön,…

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Is this Japanese behavior?

Well yesterday I was cycling around my home town and was heading towards the station when I had to stop for a red light at a big street. As some of you must know in Japan there are the chirping noises for the pedestrians to know that it has turned green. So that chirping noise went off from the parallel crossing 100m away from where I was waiting, but the sound reflects from the buildings and it sounds as if the light on my side was green. So a man standing next to me starts crossing thinking that it was green because he was busy checking his phone. However, half way across the street he realizes that he is the only one crossing and stops to look up from his phone and stays there for a while then turns around and walks back again.

Now my question is if he’s already halfway across the street why turn back and walk back when it’s the same distance to just keep crossing. I mean he was already at a point of J-walking, and walking back does not reset you petit crime you just committed. On the other hand, the moment he did that I thought to myself, that’s such a Japanese thing to do… But is it really?

I would like to hear some opinions on this!