Silver hair market in Japan? Good quality of (whose) life with silver-to-black consumption?

Japanese Society (Silver Market?): Exceptionalism in Socio-Economic Sense? What You See is Not What it is in Japan! This question was my Japanese colleagues and informants confronting me, and I concur with them as I completing this brief…. Perhaps this synopsis could help to realize the limited understanding of we have on another Asia society (despite frequent travels and information exchange in the mobile-Internet age), par­ticularly the enigma about Japanese society’s traditionalism embedded into its supra-modernization trajectories of socio-economic development since 1868! 日本社会（银发市场？）：社会经济的例外主义？ 你所见的并不是真实的日本！这是我提出这问题时，我的日本同事跟消息提供者对我的反驳，而我完成这篇概论后也认同他们的理据……也许这篇概论能帮助我们意识到自己对另一个亚洲社会的认知是如此有限（即使我们经常到日本旅游，而且又身处这信息交流发达的年代），特别是自1868年起，深嵌于社会经济发展超现代化进程中的日本传统主义，对我们来说真的有如谜一样

The Theory and Practice of Anti-Globalization Movement : Case Studies of the Independent Media in the Chinese Societies – Hong Kong and Taiwan

The main characteristic of globalization is the "positive" and the "negative" appearing at the same time, and in the same context. The positive effects of globalization are to break down political border, to create possibilities of new types of connections and to open up the further development of human civilization. Meanwhile, globalization can be an ideology to help political powers to establish an artificial closed "system" to dominate our diversified world. Therefore, we cannot use a single point of view to analyze and confront the problems of globalization. Interestingly, anti-globalization movement, as a social movement opposing the negative effects of globalization, is not a phenomenon separated from globalization, but a part of globalization. Anti-globalizationalists argue that world superpowers are using "capitalism" and "democracy" as the means to direct the development of global community. Therefore, they start to practice social movements with the spirits of solidarity and mutual aid to accumulate social powers to fight against the domination of the Establishment and try to change the present situation of modern world. This study is to, first, introduce the theories as the spiritual foundations breeding the globalization of anti-globalization movement. After that, the case studies of the independent media in the Chinese societies -Hong Kong and Taiwan as the practices of anti-globalization movement will be presented. The differences of social movement practices between the East and the West will also be analyzed in this context. Through the above researches, we can discover that there are some specific characteristics of the practices of the Chinese independent media movements that would stimulate us to meditate on the core problems of today's human civilization with "an alternative thinking approach"