The Grudge, Iron Maze, Godzilla, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, Shall We Dance?, The Secret, etc... are all examples of this...
What are Japanese movies adapted for the US?
100
Many people believe Japanese popular culture products should have this odor based off of negative preconceptions of Japan.
What is a bad odor?
100
The selling domestic Japanese Pop Culture products were means to....
What is gain profit?
100
A substantial part of anime's appeal is its unwillingness to embrace this...
What are Hollywood happy endings?
200
This is the classical Japanese dance and drama style.
What is Kabuki?
200
Tezuka Osamu created this well known animation character...
Who is Astro Boy?
200
An important reason why American audiences have historically had access to this, is because it was cheap and readily available to distributors.
What are Japanese popular films?
200
Anime, manga, ikebana, judo, karate, etc... are all examples of this...
What are Japanese Pop Culture Products?
200
Failing to do this is one factor in the lack of Japanese profit on popular entertainments.
What is trademarking?
300
These are the immediate ancestors of modern day Manga.
What is Kibyoshi?
300
Lucky Dragon Number 5 was the name of ship that may have inspired the opening scene from this movie...
What is Godzilla?
300
Roland Kelts suggests that 9/11 is the American Equivalent to these events that occurred in Japan.
What are the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
300
The ...... of Japanese pop culture products were both a success or failure.
What is globalization?
300
Japan is thought of as a nation of .... rather than cultural innovators by some people.
What are cultural imitators?
400
Apocalyptic, monsters, cute, and mecha are the 4 types of this....
What are the themes of Japanese popular culture?
400
Wacky, inferior, weird, weak, crazy, etc.. are all .... of Japanese people..
What are enduring stereotypes?
400
This organization helps promote and spread japanese popular culture world wide.
What is fan organization?
400
Joseph Nye came up this term that refers to the type international "power" a nation can gain from having a culture and values that are appealing globally.
What is soft power?
400
This period between 1600 and 1868 was a period ruled by the shogun and samurai.
What is the Edo/Tokugawa Period.
500
A period of popular culture in Japan which included things like pro-wrestling, bowling, comic strips, Disney Cartoons, Radio Dramas, Baseball, Sumo Wrestling, etc...
What is Postwar Pop Culture?
500
The American reporter in Godzilla: King of the Monsters was played by this actor.
Who is Raymond Burr?
500
These three types of odorless products, or mukokusei, are known as the "3 Cs".
What are Consumer technologies, Comics/cartoons, Computers/video games?
500
This person lost $250 million in sudoku revenue due to not trademarking this puzzle.
Who is Kaji Maki?
500
In movies the phrase “bakayarou” was dubbed with this English slang term?