Word: import
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT SAVES THE Brazilian import film They Don't Wear Black Tie from merely becoming anti-government propaganda is its three-dimensional portrayal of the riveting relationships between members of a small working class community in San Paulo, Brazil...
...they were confined within a very narrow, self-centered domain. I decided to push forward so we can become a Japan open to the world. I have made all-out efforts to improve access to the Japanese market. We have reduced tariff rates, and despite resistance, we have improved import certification and safety standards. We have been able to make tremendous progress, and that progress will continue. Another major change is that we have moved forward to assume a political role that is commensurate with Japan's economic potential. This means when we are faced with various international problems...
This has been going on since the 6th century, with the result that few of the accumulated images that spell "typical Japan" to a foreigner were invented by the Japanese themselves. Zen Buddhism was an import, and pagodas and brush calligraphy and bonsai trees (originally known to the Chinese as penjing). Likewise the microchip and the small, inexpensive car. Tempura, the name of one of the Japanese dishes most popular among foreigners, is a mangled Latin word that refers to the Portuguese Catholic propensity to eat fish on Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating...
...Chinese import like Buddhism, and the histories of both are twined inextricably: together they afford the prime example of how the Japanese throughout their history have taken foreign forms and metabolized them into wholly Japataken foreign forms and metabolized them into wholly Japanese practices. In time, tea came to define the difference between the Chinese and Japanese ideals of exalted beauty: the former based on symmetry and minute gradations of fixed etiquette, the latter on irregularity and "natural" grace. Sen No Rikyu (1521-91), greatest of the tea masters, established chanoyu as a kind of psychic enclave in which warlord...
...usefulness perceived socially as well as aesthetically. When explaining their country's fervent embrace of classical music, the Japanese almost never cite the qualities that have kept it flourishing in the West: beauty, emotional appeal, elegance. Instead, they speak of concert music almost as a commodity, whose import and manufacture they have undertaken with characteristic zeal. "We have adopted the Western style in our social life," explains Kazuyuki Toyama, a leading Tokyo music critic. "We wear Western clothes, not kimonos; we watch baseball. So do we respect Western culture, and reflect it in our daily life...