Week13:Asianism

Like the economy, Japanese male has lost masculinity during the modernization. Asian guys are now threatening the predominance of Japanese male. Japanese female are sick of the effeminacies of Japanese guys, hence, Japanese female draw their attention to other Asian guys. Most of them thought Asian guys’ sexiness is something that Japanese guys do not have after modernization.

Due to the heavy promotion of Hong Kong movies in Japan in 1990, the image of  Hong Kong to be promoted as a modern city like any major city in Euro. Hence, Japanese female start to consume the product from HK Idols because Japanese female found what Japanese male had lost, in those Hong Kong idols such as the loss of energy and power of Japanese society. Through the consumption of HK popular culture, Japanese feel they have regained the vigor and hope lost in their daily lives.

            By looking into different mode of Asian modernity, it can see what had been gone wrong with the process of Japanese modernization. Like what features Japan had lost and What Japanese modernity has never achieved.

The traditional thing and modernity in Hong Kong can coexist even after achieved high economic growth. Japan has thrown away the good old things so much, so that everything looked merely quasi-Western.

It can be concluded that nostalgia arises out of a sense of insecurity, sorrow in present and pessimism about the future especially for the prolonged economic recession in Japan. Japan had looked to the West too much; as a result, Japanese culture has became closed and lost a meeting point with other Asian culture and has came to a kind of dead-end situation and has no further possibility.