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Kota Matsuda, an opposition party member of Japan's upper house of parliament and founder of Tully's Coffee Japan. He says the government may be laying out the money to promote Japanese culture, but what a bureaucrat or a big business executive may think is cool can be very different from what someone overseas may think. (CNBC)
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Cool Japan should be about supporting new, creative businesses, but instead it's being taken over by big business.
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SenseNotSoCommon
How dare he question the Ministry for Planned Spontaneity!
jerseyboy
Hard to argue with that. I mean seriously, when was the last time you saw a "cool" Japanese bureaucrat or bucho?
Onniyama
Yep. Exactly why they sent Horiemon up the river. Status quo! Status quo! Conform! Conform!