"John R. Yamamoto- Wilson" <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote in message
> I am not standing up for them or defending them, and will be happy to see
> them go. However, I don't want to see them replaced by yet more
> Americanisation of Japanese culture. Japan has already gone too far down
> that road. I'd like to see Japan develop in its own way and on its own
> terms. That way, when the day comes that I buy a plane ticket to the US, I
> won't just be going from a cultural satellite to the main node.

Just out of curiosity, what aspects of Japanese culture do you think are
Americanized?

By the way, have you ever been to Spain Mura?
http://www.parque-net.com/index0.html
Do you think that that little corner of Japan has turned into a miniature
copy of Spain?

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Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom