is that documentary called tampopo (because tampopo is actually a documentary)
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No it’s called noodle heads about a guy named Tomita who makes some special broth and gas won best ramen award 3 years
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Japan doesn't have a historic national identity, so they've been making it up as they go along since Tokugawa-era. Most of the things you associate with 'Japan-ness' are post-hoc rationalizations. There's not even consensus on the origin of the name '日本'.
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The Samurai who were fighters (1500s) were and the Samurai who were thinkers & poets (1700s) are 2 distinct identities with no real overlap. Tokugawa Samurai were hereditary civil servants who wanted to feel a connection to a bold masculine past and retconned 'Bushi' to 'Samurai'
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Ramen is considered Chinese food in Japan, by the way. Soba, udon, and soumen are Japanese.
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Hah. Is Strong Culture = Fandom of it’s own past? Pls define :)
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My Korean friends used to tell me that Seoul is the new Tokyo; didn’t totally buy it then, but I was wrong. There is something static and backwards looking about Japan, not vital. Also, the aesthetics of Japan are subtle, refined... less right now. The loud and counter-western
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: Filipino, Sichuan, Taiwanese to some degree seem more relevant for food at least.
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Japan is culturally defined competing obsessions with tradition and progress. This often takes the form of putting old parts of culture in metaphorical boxes on shelves, like tea ceremony incidentally requiring that you know 16th century Japanese home economics
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The two major kinds of Japanese sword schools are split between whether they assume you are fighting on a 16th century battlefield in armor or assume you are in a street brawl in an 18th century town a la Yojimbo
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