>>1954882134 years ago was when the Japanese economic bubble collapsed and Japan became a meme. Their biggest influence on the West since then has been in the form of ugly cars, postmodern manchild cartoons that are thematically about how depressing it is to live in modern Japan, and pornography where the women act like they're getting raped.
Also, I'm not American, bud. And at least I recognize my own country is a cultural wasteland, something Japanophiles are unable to do.