"Japan glazing" and "Japan demonizing" are both misguided.
Brandon Flowers Yaoi@pressurem4chineOct 24North AmericaConnected via North America App StoreAccount-level information, not a live location or per-post device.
The era of japan glazing on the internet is finally over.
(it doesn't involve an anarchist [i.e. -punk] philosophy that wants to tear down society and replace it with small-scale communes)
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Japan's economy in the 1980s was a bubble, but what if it kept growing, and Japan continued to be an economic and technological superpower engaged in a second Space Race?
"The Country that Bought the World" by Senkosansan
deviantart.com/senkosansan/a…
There's something about Y2K or neo-Y2K style electronic music that sounds more futuristic than today.
Personally, I'd like Ace Combat 9's music to sound like this. I even made a playlist.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
The liberal theory of international relations would say cooperation and friendly competition is possible.
The realist theory of IR would say conflict over geopolitical interests is inevitable.
Someone made a video claiming that even if China was democratic, the US would still try to sabotage it like Japan in the 1980s out of anti-Asian racism. She even used my meme.
Then she praised Xi Jinping afterwards for “challenging US/Western hegemony.”
Then in 2009, Friedman's "The Next 100 Years" predicted that China would decline and that there would be a war between the US and a Japan-Turkey alliance by the 2050s.
youtube.com/watch?v=d1A62wLr…
(McKnight's "Second Renaissance" worldbuilding project was inspired by this)
In 1991, George Friedman wrote "The Coming War with Japan," believing that the US and Japan would become the main economic and geopolitical rivals after the decline of the USSR.
(Video by The Alternate Historian, map recreation by Sean McKnight)
youtube.com/watch?v=jX7TH5Jf…
The question is: if Japan did not lose its economic and technological competitiveness after the 1990s, would it be welcomed as a fellow competitor or viewed as a threat?
In 1991, George Friedman wrote "The Coming War with Japan," believing that the US and Japan would become the main economic and geopolitical rivals after the decline of the USSR.
(Video by The Alternate Historian, map recreation by Sean McKnight)
youtube.com/watch?v=jX7TH5Jf…
In 1991, George Friedman wrote "The Coming War with Japan," believing that the US and Japan would become the main economic and geopolitical rivals after the decline of the USSR.
(Video by The Alternate Historian, map recreation by Sean McKnight)
youtube.com/watch?v=jX7TH5Jf…
On August 31, I started playing Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Mega Mix (Mega 39s)
The ISS, a Soyuz-like rocket, and the EVA pod from 2001: A Space Odyssey can be seen in the music video for Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! (the Nyan Cat song)
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Hatsunia represents an optimistic counterpart to the trope of “Japan as a dystopian Cyberpunk superpower” and tech doomerism in general.
So it is inspired by aesthetics like Cyberprep and Frutiger Aero, which emphasize "the positives of technological advancement."
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No, but the Worlda template is a common format used on alternatehistory.com.
There’s also a bigger template called QBAM.
October 21, 2015 in Back to the Future Part II (1989) was intended to be a subversion of dark and gritty cyberpunk media like Blade Runner.
But it was still based on the 1980s idea that Japan would become an economic superpower (the fear of which being known as “Japan-bashing”).
"Hell Valley" by RvBOMally
A map inspired by Back to the Future Part II's dystopian alternate timeline and cyberpunk tropes.
On October 21, 2015, President Biff Tannen leads the US in an alliance with Japan, both being corrupt corporatocracies.
deviantart.com/rvbomally/art…
"Hell Valley" by RvBOMally
A map inspired by Back to the Future Part II's dystopian alternate timeline and cyberpunk tropes.
On October 21, 2015, President Biff Tannen leads the US in an alliance with Japan, both being corrupt corporatocracies.
deviantart.com/rvbomally/art…































