Ironically this is just the free market in action. Japan did not manage to make this product conveniently available at an affordable price to the markets that demanded it, so Chinese producers stepped in and filled that market demand more efficiently.
Sucks to suck, i guess, maybe next time invest more in mass production for the masses and less in artisanal products for a wealthy few, then you won’t be undercut.
exactly, japan has this weird obsession with not making their products available in every country they can. only the US, maybe some of the first world countries in europe. its obvious that the US has to fund their economy and control how the world views them bc any other country this opposed to everything wouldnt thrive otherwise
Japan was as bad as Germany during the World Anti Fascist War, they invaded all the surrounding countries and killed over 20 million Chinese people before the Chinese successfully fought off the Imperialist Japanese invaders, and now Japan has been doing everything they can to return to those days, purchasing Japanese products support those efforts, a better alternative is to buy Chinese products, as it’d support a growing global revolution.
i would also posit that the obsession also has roots in japanese chauvinism, because of course it does. every debate about piracy of japanese media inevitably degrades into screeds about how piracy damages the sanctity of ~japanese art~, which is almost always an incredible crock of shit. i don’t necessarily say this as a dig at the actual content in question, but when you start acting like yaoi games count as japanese cultural treasures… well, something has gone extremely wrong.
fr, i understand people caring about actual cultural artifacts but yelling over people pirating shit fanservice anime is crazy. interestingly, many japanese words are still in the US and there isnt much demand from japan for the return because theyre low quality and mass produced but like its still part of that history/possibly connected to someone
Ironically this is just the free market in action. Japan did not manage to make this product conveniently available at an affordable price to the markets that demanded it, so Chinese producers stepped in and filled that market demand more efficiently.
Sucks to suck, i guess, maybe next time invest more in mass production for the masses and less in artisanal products for a wealthy few, then you won’t be undercut.
exactly, japan has this weird obsession with not making their products available in every country they can. only the US, maybe some of the first world countries in europe. its obvious that the US has to fund their economy and control how the world views them bc any other country this opposed to everything wouldnt thrive otherwise
Japan was as bad as Germany during the World Anti Fascist War, they invaded all the surrounding countries and killed over 20 million Chinese people before the Chinese successfully fought off the Imperialist Japanese invaders, and now Japan has been doing everything they can to return to those days, purchasing Japanese products support those efforts, a better alternative is to buy Chinese products, as it’d support a growing global revolution.
i would also posit that the obsession also has roots in japanese chauvinism, because of course it does. every debate about piracy of japanese media inevitably degrades into screeds about how piracy damages the sanctity of ~japanese art~, which is almost always an incredible crock of shit. i don’t necessarily say this as a dig at the actual content in question, but when you start acting like yaoi games count as japanese cultural treasures… well, something has gone extremely wrong.
fr, i understand people caring about actual cultural artifacts but yelling over people pirating shit fanservice anime is crazy. interestingly, many japanese words are still in the US and there isnt much demand from japan for the return because theyre low quality and mass produced but like its still part of that history/possibly connected to someone