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Japan in non-Japanese culture
- Street Fighter: Assassin's FistJoey Ansah and Christian Howard released a short film called Street Fighter: Legacy on YouTube in 2010. This project served as a proof-of-concept for their…
- Stone Bridge PressStone Bridge Press arrived in 1989 as one of the few American publishers willing to bet that English-speaking readers genuinely wanted books about Japan.
- Kappa MikeyA young man named Mikey Simon stands on a film set in Japan. He wears a thick-line, pop-graphic costume that looks nothing like his co-stars.
- ChinpokomonChinpokomon is the eleventh episode to air in the third season of South Park, and it arrived on Comedy Central on the 3rd of November, 1999.
- For HonorThe land of Heathmoor lies in ruins after a natural catastrophe pits the most fearsome warriors against one another. A bloodthirsty warlord named Apollyon…
- Good Times with WeaponsThe sky over the Park County Fair turned a flat, solid color as Stan Marsh drew his sword. The usual cutout-and-solid-color style of South Park vanished…
- Anime-influenced animationThe term anime refers to animation originating from Japan, yet a distinct category of non-Japanese works has emerged that adopts its visual and narrative…
- Death Note (2017 film)In 2007, the Malaysian newspaper The Star reported that more than ten film companies in the United States had expressed interest in adapting the Death Note…
- JapanophiliaCarl Peter Thunberg stood in a Japanese garden during the late 1700s and cataloged plants that had never been seen by European eyes.
- KamishibaiA Buddhist monk in 8th-century Japan unrolled a picture scroll called emaki to recount monastery history. These scrolls combined images and text to tell…
- DaikatanaDaikatana arrived in May 2000 with the weight of years of broken promises behind it. A first-person shooter from Ion Storm, it had been announced in 1997 as…