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Monday, November 21, 2005

Nationalist Manga
From Asia Rivals' Ugly Images Best Sellers in Japan:
    In "Hating the Korean Wave," a young Japanese woman says, "It's not an exaggeration to say that Japan built the South Korea of today!" Photo Courtesy Sharin Yamano/Shinyusha
Here is one of many interesting points made in the article:
    [T]he comic book, perhaps inadvertently, also betrays Japan's conflicted identity, its longstanding feelings of superiority toward Asia and of inferiority toward the West. The Japanese characters in the book are drawn with big eyes, blond hair and Caucasian features; the Koreans are drawn with black hair, narrow eyes and very Asian features.