Western Culture in Japan

                 My country, Japan, has been influenced by western culture especially in respect of food, music, and fashion. Western influences that Japan has been affected bring positive and negative impacts.
The biggest effect in Japan from western culture is food. For instance, there are many restaurants where serve American and Italian food in Japan, such as hamburger, pizza, pasta, and so on. Especially, fast food restaurants has been increasing these days. Not only are fast foods tasty and low cost, but also they help us save time to eat food. That's why fast foods are prefer by wider generations from children to businessmen who don't have time enough to eat food. Despite of these advantages and population, they causes bad influence to our health. Fast foods and almost all of American foods have high-calories, much sugar, and salt in comparison to Japanese foods. Then as many Japanese tend to eat American foods frequently, the population of obesity is increasing. Therefore, people should think over about foods and health.
Second, western music has affected Japan. Recently, some Japanese tend to prefer listening to western musics to listening Japanese musics. Although many remarkable singers is playing an active part in Japan, it is no exaggeration to say that western musicians are more popular than those of Japanese. Japanese like to listen to and perform western musics and dance with them in clubs, parties, and concerts, such as R&B, Hiphop, country music, and jazz. Also, there is a tendency for some Japanese singers compose and sing songs that imitate western musics. While it is positive for Japanese and Western countries to spread various musics, however, effect of western music led to decline the population of Japanese music.
Lastly, Japan has been influenced on western fashion. For example, there are many clothing shops imported from western countries in Japan. Also, lots of fashion magazines has been picking up western fashions, and some Japanese brands are imitating these fashions despite of the original concept of the brands. As a result, the number of people who are interested in western fashion is increasing. I also like western fashion rather than Japanese fashion, so it is good tendency to import and make a reference them. However, I think it is also important for Japan to sustain and be proud of originality by itself.
To sum up, foods, music, and fashion are the things that Japan has been affected by western culture especially. There are some advantages and disadvantages to introduce western culture, so Japan has to think over how to improve and how to be more international in the future.