Nem said:
Mr Khan said:
Japanese politics are complicated in that sense. Younger Japanese tend to be global-minded and more pacifist and apologetic. The trouble is that Japan is a gerontocracy to the hilt, and the older guys who run things tend to be more nationalistic.
Indeed, Shinzo Abe is trying to retract the only "apology" Japan ever gave out in 1995. But he does not speak for all Japanese in this (they don't vote for the LDP because of the LDP's frightful foreign policy aspirations, they voted for the LDP because they tried the DPJ and the DPJ didn't do anything worthwhile, so the LDP's crap does not have the popular mandate behind it).
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Looking at the sales of the 360 there, i would say the vast majority is nacionalist.
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McDonald's/Apple products/Windows/Star Wars
The Xbox's disconnect with Japan is based around culturally incompatibility, but not because "it's bad because it's not made by a Japanese company." Many Western products and ideas fit Japanese sensibilities. Xbox does not (for the very reasons that i myself and many who are not Xbox fans dislike the brand: it tries so hard to be cool that it ends up being a parody of itself, like Mountain Dew).
