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                                              July 24, 2014

I sense a remarkably un-polite
dispute breaking out in San
Francisco's Japantown of late,
between the preservationists of
traditional Japanese culture, and
those who embrace the more modern
cultural products....
                                            Of which there are many.
   A slick poster listing                   Seriously. I get the sense that
   up-coming events in                      even among people who think
   Japantown unaccountably                  they keep up with what's going
   skipped the "J-Pop Summit".              on there's a vague feeling like
                                            "J-pop?  Oh sure, I know about
   The "J-Pop Summit"                       J-pop.  I went to see Shonen
   posters sported the                      Knife once."
   slogan: "Pop is our
   tradition."                                 Japanese art and entertainment
                                               has long-since crossed the
     I bet the old guard in                    threshold where one person
     Japantown are beginning to                could keep track of it all.
     regret letting the cosplay
     kids tag along behind the                 If you haven't taken a look
     Cherryblossom Festival parade.            in a decade or two, you have
                                               no clue what's there.
                     JPOP_SUMMIT



  I think there's a way of healing the
  rift between trads and moderns, it is       This was featured by the
  pointed to by the book "See/Saw".           Oakland Museum gift shop, a
                                              tie-in for "Super Awesome",
  (( well?  need a quote here? ))             the "Giant Robot" exhibit.
                                                    
                                                    GIANT_ROBOT
                                                    
     Aug 13, 2021:

     Whatever it was I had in mind, this
     split seems to have died down.
     The J-Pop Summit out grew J-town,
     moved to Fort Mason Center for at time,
     and then eventually gave up (why I
     know not, but the Oakland Kraken Con
     has evaporated also-- maybe the wave
     of J-Cult enthusiasm has peaked and
     is receeding).

     In any case, Japantown these days
     doesn't seem to have any trouble with
     various Cosplay oriented events and
     what not, intermixed with the more
     traditional stuff...






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