Japanese cultural domination?

Redcoat

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We all know how Japan is a major cultural player on the world stage, anime and manga styles are popular throughout the West and Japanese tech companies are very influential in their fields, and this isn't even mentioning things like karate introduced to the US.

Now can there be an ATL where Japan reaches a place similar to the US OTL? Preferably a post 1946 POD.
 
In the post-war period, when much animation was still done by hand, Japanese film studios could have produced cartoons with even more detail than the ones put out by Disney. With the right sort of writing, and themes that appealed to audiences throughout the world, such cartoons could have given Disney some serious competition.
 
Japan is a good example of how much a nation with few natural resources and a significant but not huge population can accomplish given the right culture and international conditions. OTL is just about most successful Japan plausible assuming you don't totally mess up China. If China doesn't rise or is much poorer than today I think Japan has a better shot at being seen as a cultural leader in East Asia with more influence than America.
 
Improve the English language proficiency of the Japanese public. While English right now is taught in Japanese schools, it is not taught well and most Japanese people do not speak English well at all. This means that very few Japanese cultural products are produced in English, which limits their accessibility to mass audiences. Most people are simply not willing to consume media in a language they don't understand, and very few people outside of Japan can understand Japanese.
 
Improve the English language proficiency of the Japanese public. While English right now is taught in Japanese schools, it is not taught well and most Japanese people do not speak English well at all. This means that very few Japanese cultural products are produced in English, which limits their accessibility to mass audiences. Most people are simply not willing to consume media in a language they don't understand, and very few people outside of Japan can understand Japanese.
What if the Japanese language adapted to Latin alphabet post 1945 ?
 
Improve the English language proficiency of the Japanese public. While English right now is taught in Japanese schools, it is not taught well and most Japanese people do not speak English well at all. This means that very few Japanese cultural products are produced in English, which limits their accessibility to mass audiences. Most people are simply not willing to consume media in a language they don't understand, and very few people outside of Japan can understand Japanese.

Given translations and dubs exist, how would that have any actual effect?
 
A higher TFR could help. More people means more products. If Japan can manage a TFR of 1.9 for the last 40 years we would have an increase in the number of Japanese people.

More relaxed immigration could perhaps help as well.

Some Japanese companies could also benefit from better management. Just looking at how many mistakes Nintendo makes but gets away with because they have the IPs so they can still carve out a niche when they could dominate the market completely with better decisions and more aggression over the last 25 years.


Still, Japanese culture has been wanked really hard OTL. Maybe some of these fixes would really just kill the goose that laid the golden egg. Maybe a Japan with more immigrants, more English speakers, less traditional Japanese values, less conservative companies, more women in the workforce, etc... would undermine things that made them unique and popular in the first place? I don’t know the answer to that sort of thing, but maybe tinkering with Japan would only undermine their tremendous success?
 
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