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In The '80s and early '90s, Americans pretty much expected that Japan would be their new overlords in a decade or two. While other nations were too busy worrying about the Cold War and trying to dominate the world militarily, Japan was quietly taking over the manufacturing and finance sectors with a never-ending stream of technological advances and high-quality consumer goods, supported by a seemingly-single-minded dedication to hard work, quality, innovation and efficient management. This also tied neatly into stereotypes of them being cold and work-obsessed. (Though some would say that the stereotype was caused by this scenario, as just a few decades before, Americans instead painted the Japanese as stupid scoundrels.) Sensationalistic newspapers and opportunistic politicians were all too happy to stoke people's financial and/or racist fears. There was concern that Japanese domination of the world economy was inevitable. As a result, a lot of media created in the 1980s and 1990s, set 20 Minutes into the Future or later, had the U.S. being dominated by Japanese companies and culture. This trope was particularly prominent in Cyberpunk of the era. Since the Japanese economic crash starting in the early 1990s, the trope has become discredited, as Japan has never returned to the same level of global prominence (see Analysis for more details). Today, the trope has been replaced in the Western world with a preoccupation over China doing the same thing, which hilariously has lead to some Western commentators arguing for a return of Japan as a strong regional power, including outright proposals of remilitarization. This is a Western trope. Compare Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe, which is a Japanese trope about Creator Provincialism. Sub-Trope of Take Over the World. See also Americasia, Yellow Peril, China Takes Over the World and America Takes Over the World. |
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His subsequent Bridge Trilogy, set mostly in the earthquake-ravaged cities of San Francisco and Tokyo, the latter rebuilt using self-constructing nanotech materials, also had quite a bit of this (as well as the China variant), despite having been written during the 1990s. This is partly due to the Tokyo setting, though, and much less pronounced in the Bay Bridge scenes. | |
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Starlancer is pretty much World War II meets Cold War in space, where Japan is a major space power and a member of the protagonist's military alliance. Freelancer which is set 800 years later, features Kusari, a Japanese-inspired faction populated by descendents of Japanese space colonists. |
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The Simpsons In "Last Exit to Springfield," a worker from decades ago warns Burns' grandfather about the rise and fall of unionized America (the latter courtesy of Japan): There's this line from the episode "Colonel Homer," where Homer is approached by an agent from a Country Music label. The famous episode "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk" was originally going to be about Mr. Burns selling his power plant to a Japanese corporation, but the writers felt it would have been too obvious given how common transactions like that were at the time. They ended up going with a group of German businessmen instead. One of the German investors still looks Japanese, for some reason. After Homer bankrupts Herb Powell's car company in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" it is taken over by Kumatsu Motors, who also made Homer's pickup truck in the later episode "Mr. Plow." |
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects is driven by the anxiety of this trope; in one of its main subplots a Japanese businessman is assigned to his corporation's Los Angeles office and starts off his stay in America by molesting the protagonist's teen daughter on a public bus. The cops, trying in vain to identify him, complain that there are 25000 Japanese businessmen in L.A. already. | |
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The Secret of The Swordfish (the first book of the Blake and Mortimer series) has the Yellow Empire as the antagonist. It is explicitly named to be Tibet, but is obviously an expy of Imperial Japan, with its red sun banner, soldiers wearing Japanese-like uniforms, and using German weapons. They even manage to conquer most of the world in the beginning of the story. A later book in the series mentions they had a non aggression treaty with Nazi Germany back in World War II. | |
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The lingua franca of the X-Universe is a variation on Japanese (spoken with the words in reverse order for whatever reason). This is due to Japan leading scientific progress in the mid-21st century onward, making it the common tongue for Earth. The various alien species also adopt this "Neo-Japanese" from humanity as a trade language. Translation Convention makes the player hear them in whatever language the game is set to. Curiously enough, the game is not a Japanese product: the designers are German. | |
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Alien: The un-named MegaCorp referred to as "the Company" is named "Weyland-Yutani," a fusion of a Western and an Eastern name. Apparently it was originally meant to be Leyland-Toyota, representing the merger of Britain's then-nationalized motor industry (British Leyland) with a Japanese giant. This was changed later on for trademark reasons. | |
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In RoboCop 3, the Omni Consumer Products MegaCorp gets bought out by the Japanese Kanemitsu Corporation. It's unclear whether they are better or worse than the old OCP, morally speaking... but their CEO is certainly more polite than Dick Jones in the first film. | |
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In Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, a collapse of the world economy has made Japan (Nippon) a major player in a very fragmented, franchised world government. | |
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TORG dealt with multiple dimensions, each representing a different genre, invading different parts of modern-day Earth. Japan was invaded by the "Nippon Tech" realm, which conducted its invasion through economics and espionage rather than the military invasion conducted by some of the other realms. Basically, the Nippon Tech realm was a direct invocation of this trope, and was heavily influenced by movies such as Blade Runner and Black Sun. | |
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William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, beginning with Neuromancer. Japanese culture dominates the world, most of the biggest corporations are Japanese, and the Yakuza is a global player. Consequently, practically the entire subsequent genre of Cyberpunk has elements of this. His subsequent Bridge Trilogy, set mostly in the earthquake-ravaged cities of San Francisco and Tokyo, the latter rebuilt using self-constructing nanotech materials, also had quite a bit of this (as well as the China variant), despite having been written during the 1990s. This is partly due to the Tokyo setting, though, and much less pronounced in the Bay Bridge scenes. |
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You can play as Japan in the Civilization series and literally take over the world by means of a Conquest or Domination victory. The game encourages you to do it, especially in V, where your soldiers attack at max strength even when damaged. Their Samurais are also a threat. In Civilization VI, Japan's theme in the Atomic Era is meant to evoke this trope, with its combination of traditional Japanese and Cyberpunk-esque electronic instruments. |
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Parodied in Dave Barry Slept Here, where the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was part of a "complex, long-term, and ultimately successful strategy to dominate the U.S. consumer-electronics market." Dave Barry Does Japan from 1992 explores some aspects of the trope. Notably, Barry readily agrees that Americans could do with the politeness and work ethic the Japanese display (and maybe learn to make some good cars), but the Japanese could stand to loosen up, noting that the edgiest he ever saw Japanese youth were Japanese Delinquents dressed like it was The '50s. |
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In Nineteen Ninety-Four, a parody of Nineteen Eighty-Four broadcast in 1988 on The BBC, the equivalent of Oceania is "AmJap", a WikiWord of "America-Japan". The cover of the sequel's Novelization shows the AmJap flag as a stars-and-stripes with a rising sun in the striped section. | |
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Freelancer which is set 800 years later, features Kusari, a Japanese-inspired faction populated by descendents of Japanese space colonists. | |
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This trope was invoked while designing the USS Excelsior for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The Excelsior was a brand-new bleeding-edge prototype that threatened to replace the Enterprise, her crew, and her Iowa-born and -bred American captain as Starfleet's finest. In order to give off this feeling, it was designed to look as if the Enterprise was designed by the Japanese. | |
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Crash (the Iron Man graphic novel by Saenz). And in Marvel 2099, Stark Industries has become Stark-Fujikawa. This was later toyed with in Present Day Iron Man, most notably with Love Interest Rumiko Fujikawa, whose father briefly owned Stark Industries while Tony was believed dead. | |
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One-Punch Man: As revealed by Amai Mask in Chapter 119 of the webcomic, originally, the world was made of many different nations, not unlike our own. The nations fought multiple world wars with each other over natural resources, and eventually, it got so bad and killed so many people that they all decided to make up and band together to preserve the future and prioritize the future generations by creating an One World Order; with said unified government, language, and culture suspiciously Japanese-related. | |
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Rising Sun is all about how Japanese culture is allowing them to outperform the West. | |
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Gunbuster: As may be expected from a series created by a Japanese studio in the halcyon days of the late '80s, Gunbuster paints a picture of a world dominated by Japan. It's governed by a Japanese Empire ruling from Tokyo, protected by a very Japanese Imperial Navy. According to the backstory, Japan bought Hawaii from a declining USA in a very different economy. 12 years later during World War III, the US attempts to take Hawaii back. However, America's continuing collapse allows a more militant Japan to confiscate its space program and technology, soon using it to force the rest of the world under its emperor. | |
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In The Orion Conspiracy, the One Nation Under Copyright that the main characters (who are mostly British, aside from the Irish protagonist) belong to/work for is called Kobayashi. | |
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Nintendo Wars has a Japanese-styled faction, who use WWII-looking vehicles that are no less effective than their modern versions (and in Kanbei's case, are more effective). | |
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a Period Piece set in The '80s and invokes this trope as a historical reference in an in-game commercial of a compact car called "Maibatsu Thunder" and then with another commercial telling people to buy true American muscle instead of Japanese compacts. On the other end of the scale is the "Maibatsu Monstrosity" in Grand Theft Auto III, which is apparently able to seat 12 people, as well as being amphibious and equipped to travel across arctic tundra. Similarly, in Grand Theft Auto 2, the largest of the various organizations the player can take missions from is Zaibatsu (presented as the name of a specific MegaCorp, not a generic noun). | |
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It is implied that at the very least, Japan will rise to a permanent seat in the Security Council of the UN in one of the endings of Devil Survivor. Justified, as demon power would imply a major power shift in global economics. | |
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A Bit of Fry and Laurie had a spoof news segment that "the British Government has apparently just been bought by Honda." This was likely an allusion to Honda's real-life "partnership" with the troubled Austin Rover Group. | |
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Gung Ho, where Japanese businessmen are portrayed as cartoonishly repressed and professional, while Americans are cartoonishly undisciplined and ineffective. Michael Keaton makes a speech toward the end stating that Japan was "kicking America's butt," but the film ultimately pushes an Aesop of compromise and working together. | |
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Subverted in Earth & Beyond. The Japanese took over Jupiter. | |
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In the Death Note Cyberpunk AU Alternative Gods in keeping with the fic's whole Cyberpunk theme; lampshaded by Matt when Near tries to hack into the Japanese NPA's server for the SPK and is crushed by the superior skills of Kira and L: | |
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In Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, the Japan of the 23rd Century is described as an economic monolith that not only buys out other countries, but also entire continents. The action of the film is driven by three time travellers who go to mid-Nineties Japan to erase Godzilla from history, put a more destructive monster in its place, and reduce Japan to a nuclear slag heap before it can rise. | |
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In the "Unforgettable" episode of Amen, Ernest begins flirting with the young environmentalist who's come to his door to raise money for her "Save The Earth" organization by jokingly asking her, "Our earth? Didn't a Japanese company already buy it?" | |
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Played straight in Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest as the player takes control of the Zipang/Japan army before embarking on the titular world conquest. | |
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Played with in BattleTech. Japan itself, like every other modern Earth nation, has become just a regional district on Terra. But one of the most powerful Great Houses of the Inner Sphere is the Japanese-descended House Kurita of the Draconis Combine. However said power comes from the nation's military, rather than economy, and culturally it's closer to feudal Japan than modern day Japan. Ultimately, the trope can be considered averted since the Combine was styled after feudal-era Japan by its leader in the 26th Century, due to his having been a fanboy of ancient Japan and wishing he could have been a real-life samurai. Thus the Combine is really The Theme Park Version of Shogunate Japan without any true ties to the nation itself beyond the ruling dynasty's lineage. | |
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Cyberpunk 2020 plays with this. While Japanese Mega Corps are extremely prominent around the world, including the Arasaka corporation which is one of the two most powerful corps in the world and has a private army stronger than most countries... the far-and-away strongest entity is the European Economic Community, both in terms of economy and military. The EuroDollar has replaced USD as de facto global currency, and EEC also operates a giant rail gun on the moon, capable of annihilating any threat to them without the fear of Mutually Assured Destruction. | |
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One of the two endings to Killer7 results in Japan leading the United Nations in a war against the U.S. Given that the game was made by Suda51 (and runs heavy with the theme of eternal and inevitable conflict between eastern and western cultures), we can safely presume this is not meant to be a "good" ending. | |
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The Code Geass fanfic I Heard the World is an inversion of the canon, where Imperial Japan colonized North America, conquered China and most of East Asia and the British Isles, named Britannia, where the events happen. | |
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Somewhat downplayed, but present in William Lind's Victoria, where Imperial Japan is more of a first-among-equals on the international scene than a truly hegemonic superpower—but still far more powerful in both relative and absolute terms than it ever was in real life, with the world's foremost navy and nuclear arsenal, a booming economy and major political influence in the UN and among the American successor states. | |
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In The Santa Clause, Scott Calvin notices Japanese businessmen are occupying a table in the same Denny's restaurant he is dining in, making the all-American Denny's restaurant chain less than all-American. | |
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In Max Headroom, the Zik-Zak corporation, which more or less runs the world, is Japanese. Late in the series, its Board of Directors are revealed to be Yakuza. | |
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Buck Danny: Many of the early albums are very pro-America and anti-Japan, though granted they were made just after World War II. | |
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Ridley Scott's stylish but dubious 1989 action film Black Rain, in which a tough New York policeman is sent to Japan after capturing a rogue Yakuza in New York. The film includes an exchange in which a Japanese cop tells his US counterpart, played by Michael Douglas, that "We make the machines, we build the future, we won the peace." Douglas' character retorts "And if even one of you guys had an original idea, you'd be too up-tight to pull it out of your ass!" | |
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In Back to the Future Part II, future Marty works for a man called Fujitsu and calls him "Fujitsu-san."note Although this is the name of a Japanese company (short for "Fuji Telecommunications Equipment"), and not an actual Japanese name. The filmmakers state on the DVD that they based their vision of 2015 in part on the assumption that Japan would take over the world and heavily influence American culture. In the third film, 1950s Doc Brown is incredulous when Marty tells him "all the best stuff comes from Japan." | |
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Blade Runner, though it was a more general "Asia takes over the world." Noodle shops litter the street and gigantic animated Coca-Cola marquees feature smiling geishas. Word of God says that this was supposed to show that most of the more affluent (i.e. white) population of America had already left Earth for the offworld colonies, and a lot of poor Asians who had also been left behind had subsequently immigrated. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has the Empire of the Rising Sun as one of three playable factions, and arms them with easily the most advanced and versatile, albeit expensive, technology and weapons among the three. They actually complete the trope in their campaign ending. | |
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The book version of Sphere heavily implies a very heavy influence between the West and Japan in the time-lost spacecraft's own prior timeline, which would be the future for the world at present in the book. | |
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Rise of Nations: You can accomplish this by playing as Japan in the basic campaign mode. | |
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In one chapter of The Sandman (1989), Dream has been given the key to Hell, and envoys from multiple pantheons approach him to obtain dominion over it. The Japanese envoy is Susano-o, who presents it as a corporate takeover (their pantheon apparently runs multiple hells, the Christian one would be a sizeable addition). This was interestingly revisited in the Spin-Off series Lucifer, which ran during The 2000s instead of The '90s. The Japanese pantheon are still depicted as cunning and ambitious, but noticeably more pathetic, with their massive store of conquests portrayed more as a knickknack-stuffed garage than anything else. |
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Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka's 1984 novel Warday has the United States and Soviet Union cripple each other in a limited nuclear war, leaving Japan and Britain as the new top dogs. The Japanese are allowed to send whaling ships to American waters with impunity, and they also dismantle the Los Alamos National Laboratory and move it to Japan. A fictional poll in the novel also has 26 per cent of respondees say Japan is the strongest country in the world as of 1993. | |
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South Park: This plot is used in the episode "Chinpokemon" where the Anime show is just camouflage for Japan's real intention to take over the world by brainswashing all infants into becoming Nippophiles.note Lovers of Japanese culture. | |
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Hell in the Ugly Americans universe is owned by a Japanese Mega-Corp and run by businessmen. | |
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The Mishima Zaibatsu in Tekken is so powerful that their military wing takes over the world under Jin Kazama's name. | |
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This was popular enough for a while that GURPS decided to play with it; one of the alternate earths in ''GURPS Alternate Earths I" was Shikaku-Mon, whose Japanese had taken over the world militarily rather than economically (after converting to Catholicism early and becoming a colonial power), but which still invoked many of the standard Cyberpunk tropes. | |
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The New Order Last Days Of Europe: Depending on how affairs in the Cold War play out, the United States can diminish in influence and Nazi Germany can collapse into a warlord state, leaving Dai-Nippon Teikoku as the sole remaining superpower in the world, barring possibly a reunified Russia. | |
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Red Flood: Downplayed. In this alternate history, Japan is (along with Germany) a major player in the Third Internationale, and it can cause the emergence of Japanese-influenced communist movements in Brazil and Italy. | |
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Family Guy: In "Road to the Multiverse", Brian and Stewie visit a universe where Japan dominated the world after World War II. | |
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In Cyberpunk 2077, numerous characters and factions (such as Militech) treat the Arasaka MegaCorp as an extension of the Japanese state. Saburo Arasaka's worldview as a Japanese Imperialist and his desire to dominate what's left of the US through sheer financial might also touches on this trope. In 'The Devil' ending, Arasaka is on the path to conquering the world; Project Mikoshi proves Arasaka's Body Backup Drive works, ensuring they can just buy off world leaders with immortality. This is considered the bad ending. |
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In Other People's Money, Lawrence Garfield, head of Garfield Investments, said he was encouraging his employees to learn Japanese out of fear of the trope. | |
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