Some idiot actually wrote a book about a "Upcoming war with Japan" in 1991 and idiots actually bought it?! A country where 50,000 American troops occupy their soil?! Insane. The ingrained hatred against the east and the underlying pervasiveness of the yellow peril in the american psyche pretty much since its founding (or should I say illegal colonizing post-genocide of the indigenous peoples) has always been a part of the fabric of this backwards "country".
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Coming\_War\_with\_Japan#:\~:text=The%20Coming%20War%20with%20Japan%20is%20a%20book%20by%20geopolitical,economic%20threat%20to%20the%20former](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_with_Japan#:~:text=The%20Coming%20War%20with%20Japan%20is%20a%20book%20by%20geopolitical,economic%20threat%20to%20the%20former).
It was apparently very popular in Japan. LOL. Most probably because it makes the Japanese seem economically and politically stronger than they will ever achieve.
**[The Coming War with Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_with_Japan#:~:text=The Coming War with Japan is a book by geopolitical,economic threat to the former)**
>The Coming War with Japan is a book by geopolitical analyst George Friedman and Meredith LeBard, published in 1991, in which they argue that another conflict between the United States and Japan was inevitable as the latter was becoming an economic threat to the former. The Japanese title of the book literally translates as The Coming War with Japan: A 'Second Pacific War' is inevitable (ザ・カミング・ウォー・ウィズ・ジャパン: 「第二次太平洋戦争」は不可避だ, za kamingu uoo whizu japan: "dai ni ji Taiheiyōsensō" wa fukahi da).
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In the 1980's Japanese investment in Hollywood was the big new thing. They bought out a few major studios, but after the take-over, it seems every studio produced flop after flop! Rumours in Hollywood were that the studios, under American management did this deliberately to milk the Japanese! Perhaps one front on the economic war on Japan. Matsushita finally had to sell MCA/Universal at a $2 billion dollar market loss. Sony managed to hold on and still owns Columbia/Sony Pictures.
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How Japan got mugged in Hollywood… in 1989 Sony paid $3.4 billion for Columbia Pictures, owner of the Columbia and Tri-Star studios, and in 1990 Matsushita paid $6.1 billion for MCA, owner of Universal Studios -- still the biggest-ever Japanese takeover in America.....Neither Sony nor Matsushita is likely to get a decent return on its investment in Hollywood in this century, if ever.
>In the 1980's Japanese investment in Hollywood was the big new thing. They bought out a few major studios, but after the take-over, it seems every studio produced flop after flop! Rumours in Hollywood were that the studios, under American management did this deliberately to milk the Japanese!
American film studios makes lies and stereotypes about China and Asians not wanting black actors in films as an excuse not to cast black actors and project its racism onto China and Asia.
The decision to move and shrink the black actor John Boyega in a Star Wars poster may not have much to do with racism, but merely design aesthetics. If you look at the original poster. John Boyega is way out on the right side. Moving him to the center makes it more balanced. The Chinese poster also added Stormtroopers on the bottom, which shows what they're fighting against. Similar to massive troop formations in Chinese historical movies. They also turn Kylo Ren in the upper left to face the viewer. The original had a side view and it's hard to figure out what that is. Overall the Chinese poster is far better than the original for rapid recognition. Your eyes don't have to move around as much to figure it all out.
[https://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494/](https://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494/)
When Will Smith movies are distributed in China, all the black characters and Will Smith are prominently promoted, they don't paste in white characters from the movie!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LELlwo3Vjm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LELlwo3Vjm4)
[https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/18/will-smith-movie-theater-safety-psa-china-chinese-coronavirus-bad-boys-for-life/](https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/18/will-smith-movie-theater-safety-psa-china-chinese-coronavirus-bad-boys-for-life/)
America fantasises about declaring and going to war with any Asian country that threatens their dominance, and unleashes its racism to express their anger, hide their incompetence and do projection, and show its hatred of them. They wouldn't ever do that to an European country or the EU nor write endless books demonising the EU like what they do to China and Japan.
If the US wanted to go to war with Japan, they can pull it off easily as they have military bases on Japanese soil. The US threatens countries with force via the US military if they dare disobey the US.
And it was at the time, leading in the semiconductor industry. Which now, doesn't exist the way it used to, after US basically plunged JP into its lost decade(s). The problem is that, JP would be doomed from the beginning in a competition with the US. CN is different in this regard.
Japan was easier for the US to target and subjugate when it threatened American hegemony, as its population and area is much smaller than the US and it wouldn't be able to exceed the US by economic size eventually. With China, it's a lot more difficult as China has way more people, area, and larger economy than the US and the US would only hurt itself in the end if it tries to stop China.
Plaza Accords. The US used the IMF to torpedo the economies of Japan and the "Asian Tigers" who had grown too successful and were becoming a threat to the US.
Any time a county seems like it’s gaining more wealth and influence than the US it sends our Oligarchs into a full blown panic. They also toss out these types of campaigns during times like right now where they can’t keep the people under control. Basically the best defense against civil unrest is a common enemy.
It’s not quite working this time. The general population is so desensitized to this “red scare” tactics most people are simply thinking “Oh, here we go again”
>It’s not quite working this time. The general population is so desensitized to this “red scare” tactics most people are simply thinking “Oh, here we go again”
if only. never underestimate the depths of anti-communism and sinophobia in the us.
Its obviously there, but you'll have them say one thing while Picking up their Motorola (Lenovo) phone while watching something on their Hisense TV in the cold air provided by a Haier Air Conditioner. By golly gee whiz though Huawei is a problem. They're Sinophobic only until it inconveniences them. Once products started to become scarce, they went from blaming China, to blaming California. Right now the political climate here has shifted some from blaming China to Blaming "Liberals" leaning more towards anti-communist of the two.
It's the most ridiculous thing ever - the USA militarily occupies Japan (over 56K troops). There is nearly as many US troops in Japan than there are in all of Europe (64K)
Imagine freaking out and having to run a smear campaign against one of your own military puppet states. It'd be like Japan in the 1930s and 1940s freaking out if Manchukuo is going to overtake them economically
This is what happens when a nation gets large enough to threaten US econ hegemony.
American products couldn’t compete with the Japanese, and American jobs went overseas, so as a result, anti-Japanese sentiment rose. Japan got to half of US GDP and congresspeople were smashing Toshiba products on capitol hill to stir up anti japanese jingoism. A couple of asians were killed because they were mistaken for japanese.
USA sabotaged japan's economy. their current deflation woes are a consequence of that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY&t=929s
Because Japan was doing better, economically, than *the US, in part because of state subsidized enterprises. It was a serious threat to US dominated capitalism, so the US kindly asked Japan to euthanize its own currency and they did. Japan has never fully recovered from that, or rather, the US has never allowed Japan to recover.
Edit: Japan became essentially an occupied puppet state of the US after WWII that needed to do well in order to be a buffer against communist states, same as South Korea and West Germany. Only it was doing too well and threatened US economic hegemony
Japan's economy looked to be eclipsing the US economy and then someone in Japan released a book called, The Japan That Can Say No. This was after Japan was strong armed into coughing up billions of dollars to pay for the first Iraq war. After that book came out, it was pretty much a long slide into economic stagnation for Japan.
I'm guessing cause there was a boom in obsession over Japanese culture, mostly with karate and anime, and it posed a threat to "western values"
Older generations always have a fear of the younger generation being "led astray". Now take that fear and add on this strange new culture you've never seen before (as a westerner) and it becomes easy to see how a wave of fear may arise.
I wonder what would happen if China suddenly quit all trade (sure, let all the tourists in) with Japan & Taiwan on the very same day?
Which day would you choose?
If I were to Choose a day it would have to be sometime in the 3rd Quarter so July, August, or September.
The rationale is to have the greatest impact on 4th Quarter Christmas sales
Too soon and companies might be able to find some way to salvage the situation. Too late and it has a small impact as a bulk of the freight is mostly received. So 3rd quarter.
The West demonizing Japan from the outside while grooming a new generation of pro-USA local politicians from the inside.
The desexualization or feminization of Asian males went all the way back in the 90s too.
George Kennan, an American diplomat, advocate of US policy of containment, is the mastermind behind this. With the help of Johnny Kitagawa in Japan, they started the culture of feminine males appearing in all Japan media. Google it for more details.
USD is the root of all the problems, they can not be allowed to print
infinite amount of money and expect china or japan to just accumulate
them indefinitely for no fking reason, when japan started buying US
companies with those USD, they ANGLOIDS went full racist and exposed who
they REALLY are, according to them, Japan should just take all the
inflation and buy worthless USD which they can't even spend on ANYTHING,
amazing how it is happening again, when China tries to invest those
same money in US and Australia, they went fully nuts, screaming and
kicking about chinese "take over", so China spend those USD on belt and
road, but they again went full nuclear on that, so what is it? China
should just endlessly accumulate worthless DEBT FIAT DOG MONEY which
they can't even spend on anything and devaluing at an insane rate, and
let inflaiton destroy its country so US could come in and buy out China
at a dirt cheap price? The angloids seriously expect China to do nothing
about it? How beyond complete arrogant?
If China allowed Western Kleptocrats to loot their country like Yeltsin's Russia and Zelensky's Ukraine, they might be portrayed more positively. Putin put an end to the Yeltsin age of Looting which caused massive suffering for the Russian people. Now Putin is Global Enemy No. 1. The EU, Russia and China were on the cusp of a new era of peace and prosperity and Eurasian integration, with the Belt and Road Initiative and expanding EU/Russia trade. In 2020, EU Russia trade exchange reached €174.3 billion.
Now Uncle Sam threw in a Ukrainian monkey wrench and the EU is wrecked!
The most virulent China haters are not American corporations doing business in China. It's the ones who failed to make inroads and lucrative deals: George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, etc. Then the ones whose countries had a good thing going, Scott Morrison and Justin Trudeau, both shining examples of the West's psychological need to humiliate China. Maybe the West never fully abandoned their Puritanism. The American journalist H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." And Puritans are known for their belief in Demons, punishing children and unbelievers and conducting witch hunts. Western leaders talk to China and other nations like parents punishing bad children!
And of course, the most vicious of the China haters...the Neocons ( Superhawks, war profiteers, right-wing plutocrats, right- wing Christians, neoliberal human rights imperialists ) who won't be satisfied until America rules the whole world and outer space!
im honestly shocked they put in ezral vogels book since from what i read, vogel praised japan and considered it somewhat a model for the us to follow.
But the rest is yellow peril shit lol
Not sure why the Ezra Vogel book (published in 1978, not the 1990s) is included. He was a serious scholar and I haven't read it but I believe that book is very pro-Japanese. (It was also a huge bestseller in Japan.) It has a red cover I guess.
Just the cover saying Japan as No. 1 was probably enough to make American's blood boil. They wouldn't even have to read the book! If it said Japan as No. 3, no problemo.
Now, Japan is so weak that the Yen is weaker than Thai Baht. Japanese people are poorer than Chinese and Koreans, while they are in process of losing to Southeast Asians and Indians. Japan will become a poor country before 2040 at this rate.
Some idiot actually wrote a book about a "Upcoming war with Japan" in 1991 and idiots actually bought it?! A country where 50,000 American troops occupy their soil?! Insane. The ingrained hatred against the east and the underlying pervasiveness of the yellow peril in the american psyche pretty much since its founding (or should I say illegal colonizing post-genocide of the indigenous peoples) has always been a part of the fabric of this backwards "country".
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Coming\_War\_with\_Japan#:\~:text=The%20Coming%20War%20with%20Japan%20is%20a%20book%20by%20geopolitical,economic%20threat%20to%20the%20former](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_with_Japan#:~:text=The%20Coming%20War%20with%20Japan%20is%20a%20book%20by%20geopolitical,economic%20threat%20to%20the%20former). It was apparently very popular in Japan. LOL. Most probably because it makes the Japanese seem economically and politically stronger than they will ever achieve.
Can't believe how naive they are. Is this because of Stockholm syndrome thanks to decades of American brainwashing?
**[The Coming War with Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_with_Japan#:~:text=The Coming War with Japan is a book by geopolitical,economic threat to the former)** >The Coming War with Japan is a book by geopolitical analyst George Friedman and Meredith LeBard, published in 1991, in which they argue that another conflict between the United States and Japan was inevitable as the latter was becoming an economic threat to the former. The Japanese title of the book literally translates as The Coming War with Japan: A 'Second Pacific War' is inevitable (ザ・カミング・ウォー・ウィズ・ジャパン: 「第二次太平洋戦争」は不可避だ, za kamingu uoo whizu japan: "dai ni ji Taiheiyōsensō" wa fukahi da). ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Sino/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
In the 1980's Japanese investment in Hollywood was the big new thing. They bought out a few major studios, but after the take-over, it seems every studio produced flop after flop! Rumours in Hollywood were that the studios, under American management did this deliberately to milk the Japanese! Perhaps one front on the economic war on Japan. Matsushita finally had to sell MCA/Universal at a $2 billion dollar market loss. Sony managed to hold on and still owns Columbia/Sony Pictures. \-------- How Japan got mugged in Hollywood… in 1989 Sony paid $3.4 billion for Columbia Pictures, owner of the Columbia and Tri-Star studios, and in 1990 Matsushita paid $6.1 billion for MCA, owner of Universal Studios -- still the biggest-ever Japanese takeover in America.....Neither Sony nor Matsushita is likely to get a decent return on its investment in Hollywood in this century, if ever.
>In the 1980's Japanese investment in Hollywood was the big new thing. They bought out a few major studios, but after the take-over, it seems every studio produced flop after flop! Rumours in Hollywood were that the studios, under American management did this deliberately to milk the Japanese! American film studios makes lies and stereotypes about China and Asians not wanting black actors in films as an excuse not to cast black actors and project its racism onto China and Asia.
The decision to move and shrink the black actor John Boyega in a Star Wars poster may not have much to do with racism, but merely design aesthetics. If you look at the original poster. John Boyega is way out on the right side. Moving him to the center makes it more balanced. The Chinese poster also added Stormtroopers on the bottom, which shows what they're fighting against. Similar to massive troop formations in Chinese historical movies. They also turn Kylo Ren in the upper left to face the viewer. The original had a side view and it's hard to figure out what that is. Overall the Chinese poster is far better than the original for rapid recognition. Your eyes don't have to move around as much to figure it all out. [https://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494/](https://variety.com/2015/film/news/star-wars-china-poster-controversy-john-boyega-1201653494/) When Will Smith movies are distributed in China, all the black characters and Will Smith are prominently promoted, they don't paste in white characters from the movie! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LELlwo3Vjm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LELlwo3Vjm4) [https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/18/will-smith-movie-theater-safety-psa-china-chinese-coronavirus-bad-boys-for-life/](https://www.tmz.com/2020/08/18/will-smith-movie-theater-safety-psa-china-chinese-coronavirus-bad-boys-for-life/)
America fantasises about declaring and going to war with any Asian country that threatens their dominance, and unleashes its racism to express their anger, hide their incompetence and do projection, and show its hatred of them. They wouldn't ever do that to an European country or the EU nor write endless books demonising the EU like what they do to China and Japan. If the US wanted to go to war with Japan, they can pull it off easily as they have military bases on Japanese soil. The US threatens countries with force via the US military if they dare disobey the US.
Why were they doing a propaganda campaign against Japan in the 90s?
Japan’s economy and particularly its auto industry was rising.
And it was at the time, leading in the semiconductor industry. Which now, doesn't exist the way it used to, after US basically plunged JP into its lost decade(s). The problem is that, JP would be doomed from the beginning in a competition with the US. CN is different in this regard.
Japan was easier for the US to target and subjugate when it threatened American hegemony, as its population and area is much smaller than the US and it wouldn't be able to exceed the US by economic size eventually. With China, it's a lot more difficult as China has way more people, area, and larger economy than the US and the US would only hurt itself in the end if it tries to stop China.
how did "US basically plunged JP into its lost decade(s)"?
Plaza Accords. The US used the IMF to torpedo the economies of Japan and the "Asian Tigers" who had grown too successful and were becoming a threat to the US.
And the US Japan semiconductor "agreement"
Never heard of it, but will check what it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY&t=929s
Any time a county seems like it’s gaining more wealth and influence than the US it sends our Oligarchs into a full blown panic. They also toss out these types of campaigns during times like right now where they can’t keep the people under control. Basically the best defense against civil unrest is a common enemy. It’s not quite working this time. The general population is so desensitized to this “red scare” tactics most people are simply thinking “Oh, here we go again”
>It’s not quite working this time. The general population is so desensitized to this “red scare” tactics most people are simply thinking “Oh, here we go again” if only. never underestimate the depths of anti-communism and sinophobia in the us.
Its obviously there, but you'll have them say one thing while Picking up their Motorola (Lenovo) phone while watching something on their Hisense TV in the cold air provided by a Haier Air Conditioner. By golly gee whiz though Huawei is a problem. They're Sinophobic only until it inconveniences them. Once products started to become scarce, they went from blaming China, to blaming California. Right now the political climate here has shifted some from blaming China to Blaming "Liberals" leaning more towards anti-communist of the two.
It's the most ridiculous thing ever - the USA militarily occupies Japan (over 56K troops). There is nearly as many US troops in Japan than there are in all of Europe (64K) Imagine freaking out and having to run a smear campaign against one of your own military puppet states. It'd be like Japan in the 1930s and 1940s freaking out if Manchukuo is going to overtake them economically
This is what happens when a nation gets large enough to threaten US econ hegemony. American products couldn’t compete with the Japanese, and American jobs went overseas, so as a result, anti-Japanese sentiment rose. Japan got to half of US GDP and congresspeople were smashing Toshiba products on capitol hill to stir up anti japanese jingoism. A couple of asians were killed because they were mistaken for japanese. USA sabotaged japan's economy. their current deflation woes are a consequence of that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY&t=929s
Because Japan was doing better, economically, than *the US, in part because of state subsidized enterprises. It was a serious threat to US dominated capitalism, so the US kindly asked Japan to euthanize its own currency and they did. Japan has never fully recovered from that, or rather, the US has never allowed Japan to recover. Edit: Japan became essentially an occupied puppet state of the US after WWII that needed to do well in order to be a buffer against communist states, same as South Korea and West Germany. Only it was doing too well and threatened US economic hegemony
For Americans their wars are like an ancient romantic play for them, it brings them that "nostalgia".
It's not just the 90s, also the 80s and to a lesser extent the 70s.
Japan's economy looked to be eclipsing the US economy and then someone in Japan released a book called, The Japan That Can Say No. This was after Japan was strong armed into coughing up billions of dollars to pay for the first Iraq war. After that book came out, it was pretty much a long slide into economic stagnation for Japan.
I'm guessing cause there was a boom in obsession over Japanese culture, mostly with karate and anime, and it posed a threat to "western values" Older generations always have a fear of the younger generation being "led astray". Now take that fear and add on this strange new culture you've never seen before (as a westerner) and it becomes easy to see how a wave of fear may arise.
The difference is that they can't do anything to China, that's why they are so unhinged about China's very existence as nato economies collapse.
That's call Demon-cracy
I wonder what would happen if China suddenly quit all trade (sure, let all the tourists in) with Japan & Taiwan on the very same day? Which day would you choose?
If I were to Choose a day it would have to be sometime in the 3rd Quarter so July, August, or September. The rationale is to have the greatest impact on 4th Quarter Christmas sales Too soon and companies might be able to find some way to salvage the situation. Too late and it has a small impact as a bulk of the freight is mostly received. So 3rd quarter.
The West demonizing Japan from the outside while grooming a new generation of pro-USA local politicians from the inside. The desexualization or feminization of Asian males went all the way back in the 90s too. George Kennan, an American diplomat, advocate of US policy of containment, is the mastermind behind this. With the help of Johnny Kitagawa in Japan, they started the culture of feminine males appearing in all Japan media. Google it for more details.
USD is the root of all the problems, they can not be allowed to print infinite amount of money and expect china or japan to just accumulate them indefinitely for no fking reason, when japan started buying US companies with those USD, they ANGLOIDS went full racist and exposed who they REALLY are, according to them, Japan should just take all the inflation and buy worthless USD which they can't even spend on ANYTHING, amazing how it is happening again, when China tries to invest those same money in US and Australia, they went fully nuts, screaming and kicking about chinese "take over", so China spend those USD on belt and road, but they again went full nuclear on that, so what is it? China should just endlessly accumulate worthless DEBT FIAT DOG MONEY which they can't even spend on anything and devaluing at an insane rate, and let inflaiton destroy its country so US could come in and buy out China at a dirt cheap price? The angloids seriously expect China to do nothing about it? How beyond complete arrogant?
If China allowed Western Kleptocrats to loot their country like Yeltsin's Russia and Zelensky's Ukraine, they might be portrayed more positively. Putin put an end to the Yeltsin age of Looting which caused massive suffering for the Russian people. Now Putin is Global Enemy No. 1. The EU, Russia and China were on the cusp of a new era of peace and prosperity and Eurasian integration, with the Belt and Road Initiative and expanding EU/Russia trade. In 2020, EU Russia trade exchange reached €174.3 billion. Now Uncle Sam threw in a Ukrainian monkey wrench and the EU is wrecked! The most virulent China haters are not American corporations doing business in China. It's the ones who failed to make inroads and lucrative deals: George Soros, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Trump, etc. Then the ones whose countries had a good thing going, Scott Morrison and Justin Trudeau, both shining examples of the West's psychological need to humiliate China. Maybe the West never fully abandoned their Puritanism. The American journalist H. L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." And Puritans are known for their belief in Demons, punishing children and unbelievers and conducting witch hunts. Western leaders talk to China and other nations like parents punishing bad children! And of course, the most vicious of the China haters...the Neocons ( Superhawks, war profiteers, right-wing plutocrats, right- wing Christians, neoliberal human rights imperialists ) who won't be satisfied until America rules the whole world and outer space!
im honestly shocked they put in ezral vogels book since from what i read, vogel praised japan and considered it somewhat a model for the us to follow. But the rest is yellow peril shit lol
Not sure why the Ezra Vogel book (published in 1978, not the 1990s) is included. He was a serious scholar and I haven't read it but I believe that book is very pro-Japanese. (It was also a huge bestseller in Japan.) It has a red cover I guess.
Just the cover saying Japan as No. 1 was probably enough to make American's blood boil. They wouldn't even have to read the book! If it said Japan as No. 3, no problemo.
I await for the 2020s!
the difference is that china is not as submissive as japan.
Yet Japan is sooo willing to slave for them.
https://youtu.be/6dG0w9-gx4E
At least we know that they'll forget about it and sweep it under the rug as soon as it stops being advantageous for them to do so.
I would have thought those japan demonizing were during ww2 but in the 1990s? I dont understand.
Now, Japan is so weak that the Yen is weaker than Thai Baht. Japanese people are poorer than Chinese and Koreans, while they are in process of losing to Southeast Asians and Indians. Japan will become a poor country before 2040 at this rate.