Japanese society does tend to reward stoicism and oftentimes emotion is not expressed as vividly as it is in American society. So I think that Twitter ... provided a platform that allowed a nonthreatening way to present your own emotional state.
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Stanford University’s Richard Dasher, an expert in Japanese linguistics, on why Twitter users in Japan have generated some of the biggest traffic spikes in the microblogging service’s five-year history. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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gaijinfo
In other words, Japan = Otaku nation
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tkoind2
How can anyone express anything meaningful in a twitter length comment. It is just one more form or escapism.
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tkoind2
sorry. of escapism.
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