Released on the same day in Japan and US!

Released on the same day in Japan and US!
...wow, that's pretty long to say in English. Nichibei-Douji-Koukai in Japanese.

Anyhoo, this is about movies.
This phrase is kind of like a biiig ad word in Japan. It makes the movie sound really special and it gives great advertising effect. But of course, it's not a bit effective to promote movies this way in the States, is it?
I didn't even care about it until I saw the trailer for DaVinci Code.

Come to think of it, Japanese people have a unique and interesting national character. They feel huge complex against the West and at the same time love foreign stuff. Some Japanese person who didn't exactly succeed in Japan sometimes goes abroad and gets great praises, and guess what? He or she becomes a hero back in Japan. It actually happens quite often.

Is it that the grass looks greener on the other side all the time? Or is it because Japanese people is said to lack nationalism?

This so-called lack of nationalism is actually one of the most significant problems regarding the connections between Japan and the world.

Globalizing Japan and Japanilizing Globe.

As this is probably my biggest interest at this moment, I'd like to write about it every now and then if I notice something or if there's any news on it... or more likely, when I don't have anything else to write about :P