I don't understand the knee jerk response of Japan=nationalistic. One only has to look at the success of Iphone, the mega portal that yahoo japan still is, amazon Japan. McDonald's. All American brands that the Japanese know love and use in vast numbers. The Japanese like high end foreign stuff as the next guy, The marquee of owning BMW and Mercedes as veh to show you have money and taste is true over there as it is in the English speaking west.
The idea that the Japanese are somehow nationalistic when it comes to consumer products is asinine. Look at famous tv shows such as densha otaku where he uses star wars music, receives (from a rich girl) french Hermes cups as a gift, drinks a brand of tea because the Queen of Britain is purported to drink it. Japan= racist/nationalistic has no currency in the real world and trotting out such a bankrupt idea indicates ironically, a prejudice mind.
