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occasional flirtations with an interest in vampires are, like
most things having to do with Japan and Western pop culture, a
bizarre mix of revulsion and fascination with the foreign — a
dichotomy that is almost certainly (in my eyes) born of the
interests of the young simply not lining up with the prejudice
of the old (something that is not unique to Japan, or to any
culture). One portion of the Japanese population can import and
read home-grown vampire fiction as cautionary tales about the
corrupting influence of the foreign on Japan, while another
portion of the population can read those same tales and simply
walk away having enjoyed a fun horror story about strange
creatures. The presentation of vampires as symbols for the
threat of and infection by the foreign is hardly a uniquely
Japanese trait. The very foundation of modern pop culture
vampire lore, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, is basically a cautionary
tale about swarthy Eastern Europeans with weird