Re: Japan.
> This latter is more like it. Personally, I feel it offers a pretty
> good balance between "familiar, modern, and convenient" and "different and
> foreign".
>
> S Korea might offer much of this now, but then you have to worry
> about half a million crazed "Dear Leader" adherents on your border.
Japan is also within missile range of those nutters... doesn't stop
every gaijin and his dog from wanting to live in Japan.
I still cannot work out the puzzle of Japanophilia. There are many
countries that are modern, convenient, safe and with a rich history.
Much of Europe for example.
I was going to mention the hotness of the women... but that could apply
to Scandinavia, Korea and other places.
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