June 22, 2007

Japanese Pop Culture

It's becoming a smaller and smaller world, after all, and we should not be surprised to learn that hip-hop has reached Japan. Similarly, karaoke, long popular in that country, has become well known around the globe — though not all Japanese are eager performers. But what does it say about our world and the possible future of American culture, when, in the words of Laura Miller in Beauty Up, we see "a shift to beautification as a component of masculinity"? Should we expect Macy's to

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