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Néojaponisme
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Néojaponisme is a personal blog at neojaponisme.com about culture and history. Since 2009, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture (2011)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Néojaponisme, W. David Marx's blog, for analysis of Japanese fashion, street culture and trends, including how Japan adopts, adapts and transforms foreign culture.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture (2011)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-11-28
- The Japanese Fear of the Internet3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-05-25
What Hacker News says?
Because there are benefits to this way of doing things, and not all of Japan is like this. As the link points out being incredibly careful with practices, and really ensuring the quality of a product is exactly the right thing in many situations. When building, say, cars. Huge amounts of training, careful procedures, and lots of time with senior engineers to help is often very useful. Further while a lot of the sale…
Comment linking /2014/01/15/japanese-economic-mythbusting/
on “Doing Business in Japan”Submitted The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture (2011) as a story · 102 points
HN discussionI think it is important to note how well the animated series set this up and how they adapted an actual story, not an utterly unrelated side story (like the norm for properties like Dragonball). Considering the quality of TV in general, this might be a model that will be adopted. Oh, and unlike the vast majority of Anime serieses produced today, Kimetsu no Yaiba somehow manages to appeal to the mainstream. (This art…
Comment linking /2011/12/01/the-great-shift-in-japanese-pop-culture-part-four/
on “Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and Theaters”Submitted The Japanese Fear of the Internet as a story · 12 points
HN discussionFor those fascinated on the subject of Japanese fashion trends, I'm pleased to recommend http://neojaponisme.com/category/fashion-2/
Comment linking /category/fashion-2/
on “Tokyo street fashion and culture: 1980 – 2017”Submitted Macross: A Cold War Allegory as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"Gyaru" is simply how "gal" is pronounced in Japanese, so it's an inconsistency in translation. However, kogyaru and ganguro are different styles. Gyaru is effectively a superset of the two, as well as some other styles. Néojaponisme has an interesting look back at the history of gyaru and the different styles (though unfortunately the pictures are rather few, and I have no idea where Part Four is): http://neojaponi…
Comment linking /2012/02/28/the-history-of-the-gyaru-part-one/
on “Tokyo street fashion and culture: 1980 – 2017”Submitted (Smartphones and) the decline of optimism in the Japanese music industry as a story · 3 points
HN discussionW. David Marx has been doing wonderful analysis of Japan and this phenomenon of trend adoption/synthesis/evolution—specifically with regard to fashion but he's covered many other topics as well—at http://neojaponisme.com for years now. Don't lose your weekend to the archive. Or, you know, do.
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on “How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better”Submitted The Fear... of the Internet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA relevant example: > In the case of Japan over the last decade, we have seen a significant rise in popularity of inferior goods and a decrease in demand for premium goods. Japan’s most notable inferior good of the moment is “third-category beer” — a beer-like beverage with nearly zero malt content that sells for slightly less than real beer. Japanese consumers facing no economic constraint would choose Japan’s most…
Comment linking /2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japanese-pop-culture-part-one/
on “The Myth of Japan's lost Decade”Submitted The Great Shift in Japanese Pop Culture - Part One as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's because Japanese society is backwards and unreformed when it comes to its dealings with the Internet. [1] 1. http://neojaponisme.com/2009/05/19/the-fear-of-the-internet/
Comment linking /2009/05/19/the-fear-of-the-internet/
on “Japan's National Police Agency to urge Internet providers to block users of Tor”Submitted Japan's Former Computer Lag as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNo condescension; I just said it's not hacker news, and indeed, it looks like it got zapped. Interestingly enough, there's another Japan story on the front page: http://neojaponisme.com/2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japane... Despite not being about startups or hacking, per se, that one strikes me as being much more on topic. It's more "deeply" (rather than shallowly) interesting, it's informative, and it tells you…
Comment linking /2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japanese-pop-culture-part-one/
on “American teacher in Japan under fire for lessons on Japan’s history of racism”Submitted A Bathing Ape Takes a Final Bath as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Premium Pricing "Problem" as a story · 1 points
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