I guess Akanishi just wants to be in LA? Or, like Rain, play a ninja in a major Hollywood movie? Is he also going to found his own debuted group and make a TV show about it?
Whether bullish or bearish about Japan’s long-term prospects, there should be no question that Japanese consumer society has undergone a major transformation in the last decade. A recessionary economy and falling wages have slowly chipped away at a once-vibrant and high-speed trend-driven consumer culture. Sales in almost all cultural fields -
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