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SUMMARY:Culture Rules: Japan Found its Cool in the 21st Century\, But Can It Keep It?
DESCRIPTION:The branding of "Cool Japan" in the early aughts kickstarted 
 Japan's 21st Century pop culture juggernaut. Global demand for 
 Japan-produced anime\, manga\, games\, fashion and food skyrocketed\, and 
 Japanese creatives scrambled to feed it through a rapid succession of media 
 platforms--DVDs\, Torrents\, Cinemas and Streaming sites--as post-Covid 
 inbound tourism stats exploded. Fiscal analysts now forecast a rosy CGR of 
 9.8% for Japan's pop culture products and a global market more than 
 doubling to $72 billion in less than 10 years. But spotty government 
 support\, a shrinking labor and consumer pool\, and rising costs amid a 
 retreat from globalization mean that the sustained business of Cool Japan 
 is hardly a sure bet. Where do we go from here? Pokemon's lucrative 
 lightning might not strike twice.\n\nSpeaker: \n\nRoland Nozomu Kelts is an 
 award-winning Japanese American journalist\, author\, editor and scholar. 
 He is best known for his highly acclaimed bestseller\, Japanamerica: How 
 Japanese Pop Culture has Invaded the US\, and the more recent\, Blade 
 Runner: Black Lotus. He contributes to numerous media outlets in Japan\, 
 the US and Europe\, including the BBC\, CBS's "60 Minutes\," CNN\, NHK\, 
 The Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian and 
 The New York Times\, and he has been a contributing editor to the Japanese 
 literary journal "Monkey: New Writing from Japan" since its inception in 
 2011. Kelts has worked as an author\, editor and consultant for publishers 
 in Japan\, the UK and the US for over twenty years\, and he was a Nieman 
 Fellow in Journalism at Harvard in 2017. He is currently a Visiting 
 Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo. 
 http://japanamerica.blogspot.com/\n\nModerator: Kyle Cleveland\, ICAS 
 Co-director and Associate Professor of Sociology\, Temple University Japan
LOCATION:Room 208\, Temple University Japan Campus - Tokyo
ORGANIZER;CN="Leslie Tirapelle":MAILTO:leslie.tirapelle@tuj.temple.edu
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CONTACT;CN="Leslie Tirapelle":MAILTO:leslie.tirapelle@tuj.temple.edu
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