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© 2021 AFPOlympic characters face stiff competition in mascot-mad Japan
By Natsuko FUKUE TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Danielsan
Force-fed mass marketing.
starpunk
Japanese culture has given us other 'cutesy-wutsey' cool cultural things like Pac-Man, Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, kawaii, Hello Kitty, even Godzilla and more. I don't think past 'animist' traditions have anything to do with that. That's all just what makes Japan so unique today.
Unfortunately yes. It's a bit crass. It happens in the USA all the time. Grunge rock 'fashions', belief in angels, Olympic Games, Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp, Y2K, 'support the troops', 'support the firefighters', 'support the nurses' and lately GLBT Pride - not that these things are bad or unworthy but they get converted into trendy cash cows. That makes me sick, turning every damn thing into a dollar bill.