When the world thinks of Japanese entertainment, the mind often leaps immediately to two starkly different images: a speeding blue hedgehog named Sonic, or the haunting, silent visage of a ghost from the film Ringu . But to limit Japan’s cultural exports to anime and horror is like saying Mount Fuji is just a hill. Japanese entertainment is a living, breathing organism—a perfect storm of ancient tradition, hyper-modern technology, and a uniquely Japanese sense of aesthetics known as wabi-sabi (the beauty of imperfection).
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Here are a few potential areas of expansion: When the world thinks of Japanese entertainment, the