Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "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

I have!

> Do you think that that little corner of Japan has turned into a
> miniature copy of Spain?

I felt like I was in my ancestral hometowns.

-- 
Kevin Gowen
"The US economy accounts for about one-third of global GDP-greater than
the next four countries combined (Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom
and France)."  
- "Advancing the National Interest: Australia's Foreign and Trade
Policy White Paper", Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade