Cultural tsunami: Business Week wonders whether Japanese culture is taking over the world, and turns to Tokyopop's Stuart Levy, among others, for the answer:

"High-school girls in Japan are the key to any trend. They are the center of pop culture today."

In a sidebar, the magazine also looks at how online communities are helping the spread of manga- and anime-related products:

"With the Internet and e-mail, there's way more of a global culture now. When we started out, we were telling kids in the U.S. what was cool in Japan. Now it's a global dialogue. Stuff is just bouncing around the world really quickly."