Japan is not ready for the culture wars

The next four years may be tough for Japanese content in the American marketplace.

This week, I was invited to give a series of presentations to a business organization here in Japan, in which I was asked to contextualize how America’s lurch rightwards (or perhaps more accurately, Trumpwards) might affect the consumption of Japanese cultural products going forward. More about that at the end! But first, I wanted to touch on a bigger-p…