>>93027251Negative stereotypes about Japan were propagated by the American government in the 70s and 80s when their automotive and electronic business ventures were failing and losing horribly to their Japanese counterparts. Thus the American government instituted a long term plan to destabilize the Japanese economy and to weaken spending on imported goods. This was the first attack on Japanese culture.
Everything from Japanese isolationism, war crime denial, sexual deviancy, strict social collectivism, and everything in between were used to discredit the Japanese in order to make consumption of their produced goods dwindle as much as possible. So long as remarks and reviews on the products coming out of Japan were marred by miscellaneous and frankly irrelevant but easily attention grabbing half-truths, the American populace would surely shy away from the Japanese.
But the truth is that their products were better manufactured. They lasted longer. They required less maintenance. The standardization and quality was far and above the efficiency of most other manufacturer goods of the time. However things would change soon enough..
The second attack was Yoko Ono. There was nothing more lethal to the public opinion of the Japanese "ruining" one of the most iconic generational bands in all of music history, The Beatles. If it were not for her, Japan's economy would have not sunken into a near 4 decades of constant recession to this day.
Finally, the third attack. HoloEN. All it took was a little bit of idol culture bashing and forcing white women to sing in Japanese, and public sentiment is back to the place where it ought to be. Despite Japan's vapid efforts to export their culture, people will happily seek out their entertainment while also simultaneously shitting on the core of the very things they sought to consume. Anime, manga, and now vtubers. Soft powers can no longer work in any country's favor so long as it is susceptible to rot from the inside.
Does it matter that manga outsells the American comic industry? Of course not. Cut the payment processors. Seize the points of distribution. Flush out the creatives with foreign investment and enshittify the CORE.
So where does this lead us again? HoloEN. Every core tenant of Japanese culture will fall and it will be done in the face of the Japanese people without needing to step a foot on their bastard lands and they will happily support the destruction of their own creation.
