It's incredibly paradoxical that perhaps the most insular, introverted and ethnically homogenous nation on earth has ended up wielding more cultural power than anywhere else of earth... It's not even close.
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What's even wilder is that they weren't even trying to pander, or dilute the Japanese-ness of their creations.
"Oh, you like big houses, big cars, big boomboxes, big meals and machismo? Well, here's a small, cute and vaguely effeminate everything!"
Totally bonkers!