How come Japanese Companies are more accepting to foreign idols?

[lalisabp]

I'm wondering because they do accept foreign people who want to be idols even mixed-race Japanese. 

BananaLemon (One girl from the group is blasian but I don the other girls are mixed with something)

 

In E-girls there's a member that's Filipino and Japanese.

 

There are two white girls in this group called peachy private  

 

And Anima Du Jean (first black idol in Japan)

 

I was watching some video of this girl who wanted to be an idol, but Korean companies don't even accept foreigners 

[Digiwon]

I think its because the japanese market is big so there's many possibilities available

[Twicelestial]

Because Korean thinks their race and culture is 1 top in this world while looking down others especially SEA countries

 

im not joking ive experienced it myself, i have worked both with Korean and Japanese clients in Indonesia, the difference is staggering

 

Japanese: bowing too much, treat us as equal, prepared to play by our company rules

 

Korean: not even a single bow or thank you, treat us like maids or servants, cheapskate as f*ck

[Osad]

Even though japanese is someway more polite towards you, they never show their true intention of how they feel about you. I've been to Japan and everybody was nice to me. It's their way, while koreans if they don't like you they show it. So Japan could easily be xenophobic as Korea. They just hide it better. 

[davidguy]

The barrier to entry for becoming an idol in Japan isn't exactly high...anyone can become an idol. There's a reason why indie-idols / underground idols / alt-idols exist.

 

As far as acceptance goes, I think it's more a case that they just don't care, especially if they don't even know you exist. There's so many super niche markets that exist in Japan, race is hardly the biggest issue that people are going to worry about. And just because you're foreign doesn't mean you're going to be popular, especially as an idol.

[FactMan]

Let's try not to explain this based on moral appreciations or prejudices.

 

It's not because these ones or those other ones have stronger individual defects of character or whatever. That is but a side factor.

 

Japan has been a top player in the world for several decades whereas South Korea is still just a small one. With that I'm implying that Japanese society has had a bigger cultural exchange with the rest of the world and for far much longer than the South Korean society.

 

The resulting situation is that urban Japanese communities are more open than Korean ones because they have been more thoroughly exposed and shaped by a multicultural globalization for more than a generation, whereas Korean ones have just barely gotten started.

 

Rural communities are something else entirely but entertainment industries aren't located in them.

[Slerian]

I think it's true that koreans are a bit up on a high horse regarding their culture and people, even though I haven't been involved enough in this whole world since I'm pretty new. But I remember things like Jeon Somi being bullied for not looking korean enough when she was young, and how even today it's incredibly hard for brown skinned koreans to find makeup that suits their skin tone. In Produce 48 all the Japanese girls managed to sing in korean yet the korean girls whined everytime they had to learn a song in japanese.

 

Again, this are all very small "examples" and it probably doesn't mean anything, especially because I am very new to this whole world. It's also very hard to know how xenophobic a culture is if you are not on the inside of it. But that's just the impression I've got.