The number of Japanese TV drama broadcasts in China started to drop in the latter half of the 1990s, losing their influence in the country and finally disappearing from its principal TV channels.

By the middle to the end of the decade, Korean dramas rose into prominence as a “newly emerging force” and expanded their influence steadily over China, triggering a boom and forming the “Korean Wave (Hallyu)” that rushed into the Chinese culture market. By the start of the 1990s, the percentage of Japanese TV dramas declined steadily as the number of Chinese-produced TV dramas increased and viewer segmentation advanced. Despite the enthusiasm, the Japanese video boom lasted only a little over 10 years. The scale of the boom was spectacular, impacting and reaching deep into the lives of the Chinese people and society. Since then, the large number of motion pictures, TV dramas, animation and other video productions produced in Japan were shown and broadcast in China, triggering huge acclaim. 8), Ningen no Shoumei (Proof of the Man) and others had been shown in the late 1970s through the early 1980s, becoming the first foreign films to enter mainland China. Since then, Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa wo Watare (Hot Pursuit), Sandakan Hachiban Shoukan – Boukyou (Sandakan House No. With the introduction of political and economic reform and of an open-door policy in China in the late 1970s, the country’s popular culture market was opened up as well, leading to the broadcast of the Japanese animation series Tetsuwan Atom (Astro Boy), the first Japanese television program to appear on Chinese TV screens from late 1979. Nearly 30 years have passed since Japanese TV drama began entering China in the late 1970s.

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