Comments on: How to make a Big Bang in show business http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/how-to-make-a-big-bang-in-show-business/ Taking the pulse of trends, trend-watchers and trendmakers in Japan. Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:52:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Doug http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/how-to-make-a-big-bang-in-show-business/comment-page-1/#comment-10288 Doug Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:23:59 +0000 http://blog.japantimes.co.jp/japan-pulse/?p=2789#comment-10288 I’ve always thought that the whole attitude of controlling all images, etc. sort of fit in the Japanese scheme of things given how paranoid J-peeps are about images in other public fora, i.e.: mosaic/no face pics on the news for non-public personalities, no real pics for mixi/facebook, etc.

That combined with how conservative Japanese society is – in the sense that they are resistant to change, that is – tells me that I expect to see the Japanese industry hold out until the bitter end, possibly well after the rest of the world has already caved.

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