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This picture portrays a t-shirt proclaiming an ad for a sushi restaurant called “Taka’s Sushi” in Fair Oaks, California. This picture shows the extents of Japan’s massive cultural capital inflow to the United States. Sushi, once a distinct facet of Japanese culture, is now a globalized phenomena akin to that of Coca-Cola or McDonald’s


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jtanaka — Last modified Mar 30 2011 8:00 p.m.


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