No, that’s just an orientalist brainworm derived from Western paranoia about Japan’s economic development in the 2nd half of the 20th century. It also doesn’t follow Lenin’s definition of imperialism afaik.
The real imperialist action was the use of the Plaza Accords to crash the Japanese economy which the country has not recovered from to eliminate any threat to American capital, or the fact that the incumbent ruling party of Japan is a CIA shoe-in. That and the heavily financialized structure of Japanese anime production (dependent on the severe exploitation of workers domestically and abroad) should reveal more about Japan than “is anime corrupting the youth”
No, that’s just an orientalist brainworm derived from Western paranoia about Japan’s economic development in the 2nd half of the 20th century. It also doesn’t follow Lenin’s definition of imperialism afaik.
The real imperialist action was the use of the Plaza Accords to crash the Japanese economy which the country has not recovered from to eliminate any threat to American capital, or the fact that the incumbent ruling party of Japan is a CIA shoe-in. That and the heavily financialized structure of Japanese anime production (dependent on the severe exploitation of workers domestically and abroad) should reveal more about Japan than “is anime corrupting the youth”