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Pure Invention How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World

Matt Alt

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination.

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99% Invisible

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99% Invisible

It was mentioned as a newly released book about how Japanese pop culture has taken over the world, it was released on the same day as the podcast episode.

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Matt Ault has a new book out right now. And I mean, literally as I'm recording this and we're releasing this episode, it comes out today. It's called Pure Invention, How Japanese Pop Culture Conquered...

— Episode: Return of the Yokai

Episode: Return of the Yokai

It was mentioned as a newly released book about how Japanese pop culture has taken over the world, it was released on the same day as the podcast episode.

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Matt Ault has a new book out right now. And I mean, literally as I'm recording this and we're releasing this episode, it comes out today. It's called Pure Invention, How Japanese Pop Culture Conquered the World.

Acquired

Podcast

Acquired

Morita discusses his admiration for American technology and the desire to improve Japanese technology to rival America's.

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And he talks about this a lot where he's really idolizing the technology and the innovation coming out of the US and sort of knows from reading everything that he possibly can get his hands on.

— Episode: SONY

Episode: SONY

Morita discusses his admiration for American technology and the desire to improve Japanese technology to rival America's.

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And he talks about this a lot where he's really idolizing the technology and the innovation coming out of the US and sort of knows from reading everything that he possibly can get his hands on.

But it really is like, oh, we should not get in a fight with people that are that good and that far ahead and their technology revolution.

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