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View: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethnomusicology/comments/1ah7leq/stephen_sondheims_kabuki_musical_pacific/
The show tells the story of Japan, beginning in July, 1853, with the return and trial of real-life John Manjiro, who comes speaking rumors of American warships, lead by Commodore Matthew Perry, with the plan to open Japan to the Western world for trade, either by treaty or by force. The show goes through the effects of this event, going up to a declaration of the Emperor Meiji, who, at the top of the show, is a mere one year old, and ends with him declaring that Japan will finally Westernize and interact fully with the rest of the world, finishing with a flash-forward to modern Japan.
However, the traditional Japanese-style songs are slowly undermined over the course of the show, with more and more Western elements creeping in to the music. This mirrors the slow creeping of Western influence into Japan following the Perry Expedition and the signing of the treaty. Eventually, the last song in the show is a full-on disco number set in 1976 Japan, interspersed with harrowing, if at times humorous, statistics regarding modern Japan.
View: https://youtu.be/mq546pasghi?si=wxnhk7k4i7apig8h
Of course kikes wrote this to humiliate Japs