Japan’s Gross National Cool
I like to keep track of the articles I have read, and so I thought one of the best ways of doing this might be to put them on my weblog. Most of these come from Arts and Letters Daily or Science and Technology Daily. I will be posting some of the most interesting ones here.
Japan is reinventing superpower—again. Instead of collapsing beneath its widely reported political and economic misfortunes, Japan’s global cultural influence has quietly grown.
Foreign Policy — Japan’s Gross National Cool, By Douglas McGray