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Originally Posted by Red5

Like Korea, Japan like American stuff. Star Ninger is popular and he is pretty stereotypically American.

Several years ago, we had very large Japanese firm as our client for the project I was working on. Like, one of the largest technology firms in Japan.

Anyway, we had a round of project meetings for a few days, and on the last day everyone was going out for a big business dinner. A couple of the younger Japanese guys asked if I could take them over to Toys R Us (which, at the time, was right near our office - it has since moved). I said sure and took them over.

These guys were both in their late 20s, early 30s. They did not talk much about their families, but when we went to TRU, they were very excited to get their hands on all of the "import" Transformers toys which they could not find back home. They both bought some TFs for their kids and told me how surprised they would be to get toys from America.

Things go both ways; here in the States many geeks are accused of being "Asia-philes" and liking things because they come from Asia; likewise, the same can be leveled at Eastern otaku for being "America-philes."