> Prosperity has made up for the de facto one-party state in the minds
> of most Japanese voters till now, but the decade-long decline, which
> may very well continue in the near future, may lead to a polity
> without _any_ redeeming feature.
But Japan in the Nineties *did* produce Tetsuo I & II, "Dragonball Z" plus the ineffable, gorgeous, transcendental "Neon Genesis: Evangelion", suggesting a lively cultural politics of resistance is brewing in the Land of the Rising Keiretsu.
-- Dennis