>The sex and race-driven identity politics currently animating and, to my mind, diminishing the literature and cultural products of the West are either muted or non-existent in Japan, where postmodern aesthetics are the outer skin of a modernist backbone. Japanese stories focus on the individual adrift in seas of excessive convenience and information, obsessed with personal not political identities, and questions of the soul.
Oh boy, this puts into words how I've felt about Japanese vs. Western media for a few years now.
Oh boy, this puts into words how I've felt about Japanese vs. Western media for a few years now.