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title: Thinking in English
date: 2025-04-27T07:19:33.000Z
updated: 2026-01-08T14:50:44.576Z
tags:
  - EU-JP_Animation_Residency
url: https://baku89.com/%E8%80%83%E3%81%88%E3%81%AE%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E5%8C%96
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# Thinking in English

[#EU-JP\_Animation\_Residency](EU-JP_Animation_Residency)

#### 非合理的なところに価値があるんじゃなくて、本来はそうした定性的な価値も含めて合理性として包摂する必要がある

The point isn’t that **irrational aspects** are inherently valuable, but that true **rationality should be broad enough to encompass qualitative values**, which often consdered as as irrationality as well.

#### Ambivalent feeling toward the book in which [村田純一](/%E6%9D%91%E7%94%B0%E7%B4%94%E4%B8%80)-san has involved as an editor

- Two books that could be categorized as “software humanities” — Toward the Ultralight Industries and Modeless Design — were published by the same publisher earlier this year. I find it interesting how they approach a similar field in contrasting styles: one uses the language of academia, while the other feels more like the hype-driven language of a consultant.

#### About gender-bias, political correctness, and being as a “woke”

- Just like in many other countries, people in Japan also tend to be more conservative in rural areas and more liberal and open-minded in urban cities.

#### Explaining what “Cool Japan” is

- A cultural pocity of the government started in the 2000s
- government-driven compaing to promote Japan's cultural products as attractive and trendy to the world.
- boost Japan's global image