Not exactly carving out a niche in Japan but it sounds like he sold himself out to make it big. Japanese-speaking foreigners who became celebrities here in the boom years of the 1980s simply by sounding off about life in Japan, and feeding the country’s narcissistic fascination with how the world views it. - INYT Wait! it gets better (Funnier) North Americans who broke into the business in that triumphalist era, when Japan’s economic challenge to the United States created a demand among producers for Caucasians who fit a growing public perception of white people as no longer as dominating and powerful as they once had been. Instead, the gaijin tarento were chosen for their ability to appear friendly, even clownish — and to add to the overall style of rollicking, slapstick humor found on Japanese television. - INYT
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 01:28:57 +0000
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