Art that snares your attention with a cute and playful appearance and then reveals a dark side is a familiar Japanese export, and the Los Angeles-based Asuka Ohsawa is new and adept practitioner of the genre.
On the surface, this slovenly male household on the outskirts of Dublin is as familiar an Irish export as steel-cut oatmeal: all booze, boorishness, and bravado.
Today's science-fiction authors expect "that the fictions we're writing now will never come about," said Ian McDonald, whose novels "River of Gods" and "Brasyl" export familiar tropes of Western science fiction to developing nations like India.
Though many of China's exports are familiar Western brands, made in factories owned or run by foreigners, home-grown Chinese enterprises are making refrigerators, microwave ovens and high-definition televisions for customers worldwide.
Mr. Richie, whose latest book, "The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan," was published in August by Reaktion Books, said that over the past decade Japan has become more familiar to Westerners through the export of its popular culture.
The editor does support importing and exporting images of familiar formats, but any Aviary work that includes an imported image not created in the suite will be marked as such in the marketplace.
East Asian motifs of decoration bear no relationship to those of the West, although many of them are familiar from objets d'art and decoration exported during the last five centuries.
For instance, silver carp and common carp can be harvested for human food and exported to markets already familiar with the product, or processed into pet foods, or mink feed.
All these federations arguably betray the influence of the Thebans, who evidently sought to export the federal principle long familiar in Boeotia itself.
They could include charges for bribery and export violations, according to officials familiar with the case, perhaps under a strategy of turning former and current executives of the company against one another.
