A game company in Wuhan had a good job at the end of the year, so good that I would like to call it the first job of the beginning of 2022, that is, they made a game called "Showa Rice Story".
Showa American Goods
The general content of this game is: Japan's economy and culture colonized the United States, yes! The Japanese call it "red bean paste". Unfortunately, a zombie virus has erupted in this alternate world, and players have to play the game of mowing in showa-style America as a comeback motorcycle girl. The elements in the game that make players in China, the United States and Japan all laugh are: the Statue of Liberty in kimono, the Golden Gate Bridge hanging high with Japanese lanterns, Hollywood has become a new Yokohama, and this game, which is called cultural arch fire by netizens, has also gone international, opened up new ideas, first do not rush to cultural output, first engage in things, and burn the fire of cultural conflict first. Why did Japanese culture colonize the United States cause such a large international impact? That's because the real world did have this possibility, and it almost became a reality in that year.
Statue of Liberty
Golden Gate Bridge
Hollywood
New Yokohama Police Station
Japan had a glorious boom, and in the early 1980s, Japan's automobile production representing industrial strength surpassed that of the United States and became the world's first. A large number of steel exports, super-scale integrated circuits started rapidly, and industry became the dominant industry. At that time, Japan established the world's most complete and largest high-speed rail and highway network, and the Japanese chip Five Tigers, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and NEC were unique for a while. Under the leadership of these chip companies, Japan's chip manufacturing equipment materials and so on have entered a vigorous and thriving situation, from their own country to the US chip market, a moment of unlimited scenery, crazy to force the US giant chip to retreat. AMD's net profit fell by two-thirds, Intel was on the verge of bankruptcy and forced to lay off 2,000 employees, the entire Silicon Valley was bloodbathed by Japanese companies, and by 1987, the Japanese semiconductor industry dominated the world. At that time, the semiconductor industry became the treasure of Japan's town house. Japan's GDP reached $1.3 trillion at the time, more than the combined GDP of Britain and France at the time, making it the world's second-largest economic power in the United States alone. The development of the economy has also brought about the prosperity of culture, the rise of Japanese music, anime at that time can be described as affecting the world, such as "Mobile Suit Gundam", "Doraemon", "Saint Seiya", "Dragon Ball", these are the childhood of many people in China and Asia, and the prosperity of the Japanese cultural circle is based on the economy, the living state of ordinary people is poor and extravagant, the life of Japanese wage earners is to end a day's work, with hundreds of thousands of yen in and out of high-end restaurants, Eat a dinner worth 5,000 R, and when you go shopping, they sweep the luxury stores in the United States and Europe, and they think all day long about how to use up the money in their hands.
It was then that Japan began to buy the world, Sony bought Columbian films for $3.4 billion, Mitsubishi won the Rockefeller Building for $1.4 billion, the Empire State Building was bought by Japan's super-rich Hideki Yokoi, and Japan raised the Japanese flag in a tall building in New York. What is even more exaggerated is that American scholars published a book called "Japan First", and the Japanese wrote a book "Japan Can Say No to the United States" at that time. And even after the bursting of the Japanese bubble, Tokyo's per capita GDP was $50,000 in 1992, and New York's per capita GDP at that time was $27,000, and it wasn't until 2014 that New York's per capita GDP began to surpass Tokyo's.
The huge rich Hideki Yokoi bought the Empire State Building
"Japan First", "Japan Can Say No"
At that time, the United States was still suffering from the Vietnam War against the Soviet Union, and watching the Japanese people live better was undoubtedly a collapse for the Americans, so at that time, Japan became the biggest hostile object of American society. The red-necked people generally believed that the Japanese had robbed them of their jobs, so they smashed Japanese cars on the streets and shouted for a boycott of Japanese goods. Yes, the Americans smashed Japanese cars ahead of us for decades, and Japan's sudden wealth has brought suppression to itself, to know that the United States in Japan has extraterritorial jurisdiction, the supreme command of the army, concessions, most-favored-nation treatment, military garrison rights, in the secret there are diplomatic, introverted, financial, legal guidance, and even the United States openly flying helicopters in Tokyo without reporting, can be described as not a colony but like a colony. In 1983, the United States imposed tariffs of up to 45% on Japanese motorcycles, in 1985 filed a 301-article lawsuit against Japanese electronic products including Toshiba in the name of dumping, and in April 1987, more than 300% tariffs were imposed on Japan's more than $300 million storage devices, prohibiting the United States from purchasing various high-tech products from Japan, including Fujitsu and Toshiba.
Toshiba
After Japan was banned, Japan actually abolished martial arts and sanctioned Toshiba Company itself, the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department arrested two ministers of Japan's Toshiba Machinery Company, and the Japanese prime minister at that time even paid 100 million yen to publish a confession announcement in many American newspapers to apologize, and then Japan opened up technology and the United States to share. On the surface of joint development, in fact, the United States has obtained all the technology from it, since then opened the door to Japanese technology, all the Japanese technology as its own, Japan has become the rear laboratory of the United States, a steady stream of technology for the United States, Japan's weakness directly led to the decline of Toshiba's mechanical intelligence field. At that time, the United States signed the "Hiroshima Agreement" with Britain, France and Germany to use hegemony to unite the major capitalist countries, to promote the depreciation of the dollar Yen appreciation, in the early days of Japan's appreciation is good for Japan, Japan in the form of direct investment to expand credit exports to Southeast Asia and South Korea, a large number of investment in Asia further enhanced, Japan became the largest creditor country at that time, with the largest bank, the largest capitalization value of the stock market, with the further expansion of the currency, a large number of Japanese enterprises no longer go abroad to take risk investment, Instead, they turned to investing in the stock market and property market that looked like they were booming at home, which eventually led to a tragedy that produced a lot of bubbles, and Japan had to spend a lot of time to get out of the shadow after the bubble burst.
And the reason for all this decline comes from the hegemonic suppression of the United States, Japan is powerful, but sovereignty is incomplete, which is equivalent to congenital lack of function. In our eyes, the principle of independence and self-determination, which is regarded as a matter of course, has never been shared by everyone in the world, and independence is a very rare and precious state in the world, it may not show value in the short term, but in the long-term national competition, the importance of sovereignty is beyond doubt, so China's development is destined not to follow in Japan's footsteps, and we do not have to remember the glory in games or film and television dramas, because our real world is in the version of "The Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation". Whether it is a country, a nation or an individual, standing up straight can go further!