Tag: Marxy

  • ABC's Efforts to 'Laugh With' an Imaginary Version of Japan

    The things I miss living outside the United States. New last week from ABC, I Survived a Japanese Game Show, has gone to work reinforcing the “odd Japanese” trope with laughter directed at the unsuspecting nation. David Marx writes at Néojaponisme: ABC producers went all the way to Japan to make their own TV program,…

  • Abe, the Politics of Being Korean, and the NYT

    From a conversation I had last week with David Marx and some snooping around on Japan’s popular 2ch message board comes Marxy’s essay on “Abe and the Politics of Being Korean.” The particular 2ch thread, which is now unavailable, got on Marxy’s back for being a vicious foreigner and also included unfriendly comments about New…