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{{quote|''"Moon over Japan,''
''White butterfly moon!''
''Where the heavy-lidded Buddhas dream''
''To the sound of the cuckoo's call...''
''The white wings of [[Turn A Gundam|moon butterflies]]''
''Flicker down the streets of the city,''
''Blushing into silence the useless wicks of sound-lanterns in the hands of girls."''
|[[H.P. Lovecraft]]
[[Japan]] in modern Hollywood is a mix of old and modern. All Japanese are [[Japanese Politeness|polite]] [[Inscrutable Oriental|but inscrutably]] [https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200129-what-is-reading-the-air-in-japan indirect], [[Asian and Nerdy|superintelligent]], [[Gadgeteer Genius|great at technology]], and [[Salaryman|salarymen]], [[Otaku]] or [[Kimono]]-clad [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]. They love green tea, ramen, sake and sushi, sleep in apartments the size of shoeboxes, squeeze into overcrowded trains to go to work, worship at Shinto shrines, and make fantastic electronics.
Oh, and by the way- Aaaaauuugghh! It's [[Godzilla|GOJIRA!!!!]]<ref>[[Austin Powers|Actually, due to international copyright laws, it's not.]]</ref>
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== [[Film]] ==
* Though filmed on-location in Japan with Japanese actors, ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'' has some funny ideas about the country. This includes (but is not limited to) Japan's [[wikipedia:Himeji castle|single most famous castle]] being a "secret" [[Ninja]] training base. Well, what better way to learn stealth than to avoid those pesky tourists?
* ''[[Sayonara]]'' uses many stereotypes of Japan: bunraku, [[Cherry Blossoms]], geisha, kabuki and [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]. On the other hand, it is filmed on-location involving actual Japanese actors in Kobe, Japan, with Tokyo only coming into the picture later and being clearly distinguished when it does. It also has strong words regarding racism and prejudice despite its 1950s setting and release, and is overall [[Fair for Its Day]].
* ''[[Bullet Train (film)|Bullet Train]]''. Between the Mt Fuji shot, taking place on the eponymous most iconic of Japanese public transport, the cyberpunk neon colouration, the demon-masked mooks, the [[Cherry Blossoms]] raining on katana-wearing Yakuza - one of whom is even wearing a kimono - framed by a torii, cute mascots and fancy toilets, it is an unabashed greatest hits of Cool Japan.
* ''[[Lost in Translation (film)|Lost in Translation]]'' has Bob and Charlotte encounter many "only in Japan" things including but not limited to drum arcade games, flower arrangement classes, Japanese weddings, karaoke boxes, pachinko parlours, ''shabu shabu'' eateries, and wacky talk shows.
* ''[[Big Hero 6]]'': San Fransokyo plays on the reputations of Tokyo and Silicon Valley as high-tech hubs, but also incorporates traditional elements like an alternate Golden Gate Bridge modelled after ''torii''.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Rifts]]'' Japan is ''literally'' a mix of old and new—the city of Hiroshima and the surrounding towns
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== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* ''[[Rifts]]'' Japan is ''literally'' a mix of old and new—the city of Hiroshima and the surrounding towns was sent hundreds of years into the future during the apocalypse and largely survived intact, while much of the rest of Japan, deliberately forsook technology, going back to the customs of the feudal era. Other areas of the now-divided country retained varying levels of technology. The conflicts, cultural and martial, between the two versions of Japan drive a lot of the story in the setting, although in unexpected ways (the Anti-technology Empire actually ''likes'' the time-lost Republic (and vice-versa), even if they wish they would give up their tech; It's some of the people that have held on to theirs that are the right bastards). Well, them and the [[Demonic Invaders|Oni]].
▲* ''Torg'', with a similar premise as ''[[Rifts]]'' got Japan conquered by the most subtle of the High Lords, and got turned into a country of high tech and [[Mega Corp]] intigrue. Nobody outside the nation noticed that anything had changed.
* Tokyo Field from ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Baseball]]'' (an obvious spoof of [[No Communities Were Harmed|Tokyo Dome]]) definitely fits this trope.
* Italian-produced adventure game ''[[Nippon Safes, Inc.]]'' is set in a fictional Japanese city that is guilty of almost every stereotype: Advanced technology, geisha, monks and salarymen on the streets, pachinko parlours, sumo fights, [[Yakuza]] in hot baths, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|suicides]], you name it.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'' hits every single stereotype about Japan you can name.
** Generally how Japan is portrayed in any comic book, really, although this is fading as comic fandom and anime/manga fandom increasingly cross over.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
* The automobile version of Tokyo seen in ''[[Cars]] 2'' is every bit as glitzy and colorful as the real thing, mixing nicely the culture and the high technology, ''right down to the toilets!'' (just ask Mater)
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