If we’re going by the definition of “cultural imperialism” being the cultural aspect of imperialism, then in my opinion no. Japan isn’t an empire. It’s a vassal of the US.
That “definition” doesn’t elucidate anything about the question, it’s just shuffling words around and leaving the reader to guess. I would also contest your elaboration, because the vassal of an empire can still participate in the execution of imperialism (would we really not call South Vietnam imperialist once it fell firmly into US orbit?). Not only that, but by reasonable definitions, Japan has been known to perform imperialism even in the creation of anime itself, by outsourcing the labor to India, to say nothing of the historically much poorer per capita China and South Korea. That’s just normal superprofits though, not “cultural imperialism”. We’d need a good definition of that to answer the question.
If we’re going by the definition of “cultural imperialism” being the cultural aspect of imperialism, then in my opinion no. Japan isn’t an empire. It’s a vassal of the US.
That “definition” doesn’t elucidate anything about the question, it’s just shuffling words around and leaving the reader to guess. I would also contest your elaboration, because the vassal of an empire can still participate in the execution of imperialism (would we really not call South Vietnam imperialist once it fell firmly into US orbit?). Not only that, but by reasonable definitions, Japan has been known to perform imperialism even in the creation of anime itself, by outsourcing the labor to India, to say nothing of the historically much poorer per capita China and South Korea. That’s just normal superprofits though, not “cultural imperialism”. We’d need a good definition of that to answer the question.
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