>But for the most part, it looks as if the “Barbie” movie’s celebration of diversity and the message of female empowerment will be overpowered by its associatio

>But for the most part, it looks as if the “Barbie” movie’s celebration of diversity and the message of female empowerment will be overpowered by its association with the atomic bomb — and that the movie won’t have a positive, lasting impact in Japan. What a shame. One possible angle was that Barbie's fantasy world is a product of a post-nuclear USA. I thought that maybe there was no Japanese love for this period in American history, but apparently, I was wrong: https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/Johnson-Town-Japan%27s-own-little-slice-of-1950s-America https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/Johnson-Town... https://www.heddels.com/2014/07/japan-love-mid-century-america-much/ https://www.heddels.com/2014/07/japan-love-mid-century-ameri... Although I suppose it's possible that opinions have changed since those times. Personally I don't really have any direct exposure to Japan, but I see the anti-American sentiment in works by some of my favorite people in their animation industry (Shirow Masamune, Kenji Kamiyama, Hayao Miyazaki).