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Jacob Welby
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Rex Woodbury • The Business of Fame: 1920-2020
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“I’m talking to you,” he began, “because the old shit doesn’t work anymore.”
The established patterns for releasing music, going on tour, and putting work into culture, he explained, were no longer relevant. The infrastructure, the audiences, and the money just weren’t there.
“I don’t know where things are going,” he continued, “But I know the
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THE TORA-SAN PHENOMENON The seventies marked the beginning of a series of films called Otoko wa tsurai yo (“It’s tough being a man”), which holds the Guinness record for the longest film series in history, with 48 feature films. The first episode in the series was released in 1969 and the last one in 1995. The hero in all of them is Torasan, a busi
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Jacob Feldman
@jacobfeldman4
“市部では町内会を組織し、すべての国民をその構成員としました。終戦後にGHQは町内会を解体するのですが、先に述べたような戦後の諸課題の解決に向き合うためには、町内会を中心とした総動員型の取組みを行うことが適していたことから、その名残で現在もなお、町内会は地域の担い手となっています。それどころか、GHQが非民主的であると考えた上意下達型の機構を市町村はそのまま活用し、広報紙の配布や防災・防犯活動、民生委員の選任など、ありとあらゆる場面で町内会が機能している状態です。”
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α-SYNODOS vol.334
芹沢一也（編集長）、坂本かがり（編集）／橋本努、志田陽子（編集協力）
Jake Wheatley
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