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Japanese popular culture
Though the English-speaking countries are known for popular culture other places also were involved with the advancements in popular culture. In Japan, While Kabuki Theater was accessible to all classes of Japanese people, Europe’s aristocrats initially regarded it as high art (Wertz 2). Kabuki theater is a rich blend of music, dance, mime, and spectacular staging and costuming, it has been a major theatrical form in Japan for four centuries (britannica 1). Kabuki started in the 17th century by a woman named Okuni [|(britannica 2)]. Though the plays are supposed to show off the skills of the actors and to entertain the audience there is also a message that is said with the plays being a religious calling due to this there are often religious ideas influenced in the plays(britannica 4). During present time there was a closing in 2010 but then it was reopened in 2013 and has continued these plays but there are many other theaters that are more popular and overlap them(Britannica 2).