OpenAI is American. Why is their latest product announcement so Japanese?| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Global protest movements are relying on imagery from Japan. Here's why.| Matt Alt's Pure Invention
The eerie parallels between Japan's Sixties and America today| blog.pureinventionbook.com
The secret to being loved by everybody: taking political stances discernible to nobody| blog.pureinventionbook.com
And the biggest hits come from Shonen Jump, which turns 55 this month| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Why a toy craze isn't finding traction in a toy-crazed country| Matt Alt's Pure Invention
How Weekly Shonen Jump became a global cultural juggernaut| blog.pureinventionbook.com
A repost from the archives about Nizo Yamamoto, who transformed anime from fantasy into an all-enveloping reality for fans.| blog.pureinventionbook.com
What stops conspiracies from hijacking the conversation in Japan?| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Japan’s far right won big in yesterday's elections. What's it mean for pop culture?| blog.pureinventionbook.com
America turned itself into a reality show. Why didn’t Japan?| Matt Alt's Pure Invention
The real reason the Japanese government is so obsessed with tourism| blog.pureinventionbook.com
A voice actress has a very bad week.| blog.pureinventionbook.com
The rural fantasies of San'in that made Japan a global superstar| Matt Alt's Pure Invention
And that’s the real secret to global pop-cultural success| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Japan doesn't have a "manosphere." The reasons why might surprise.| blog.pureinventionbook.com
What does Hayao Miyazaki really think about AI?| blog.pureinventionbook.com
What a terrorist incident from 1970's Japan tells us about American politics today| blog.pureinventionbook.com
In a post-rule of law world, Japan bets on fantasies to see it through| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Today's "AI arms race" is a sequel. The first played out between the US and Japan. And it isn't over yet.| Matt Alt's Pure Invention
The next four years may be tough for Japanese content in the American marketplace.| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Without Popeye, manga, anime, and video games wouldn’t exist as we know them.| blog.pureinventionbook.com
The suspect's time in Japan reveals many things about his worldview.| Matt Alt's Pure Invention
Ersatz "anime" abounds. It's time to make "Japanese Anime" a protected designation.| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Nobody curates clutter like the Japanese. I wrote about it for Aeon magazine.| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Dragon Quest III HD-2D and the pitfalls of producing content in a polarized world| blog.pureinventionbook.com
How will Shigeru Ishiba becoming Prime Minister impact Japan’s pop culture?| blog.pureinventionbook.com
The world’s falling apart. Can fandom save us?| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Juliana’s Tokyo closed 30 years ago this month, but in some ways, the party goes on| blog.pureinventionbook.com
Politics, AI and the "last-mile problem" of getting Japanese content to audiences abroad| blog.pureinventionbook.com
And won the bigger game.| blog.pureinventionbook.com