Article: Japanese anime is one of many pathways of globalization.

Byline: Daniel Sneider

The popular image of globalization is of a one-way street, transporting Hollywood movies, Big Macs and Windows software to a captive world. Actually globalization is a vast multi-lane highway, with many connecting roads that never seem to pass through America.

In Japan, for example, housewives are enthralled by a Korean soap opera. In the cinema houses of Central Asia, the brash Indian musicals rolled out of the studios of Bollywood are the rage.

But one of the oddest pathways of globalization stretches from a cramped artist's studio on the outskirts of Tokyo straight into tens of millions of American homes, including my ...

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