Japan’s Beautiful Love Affair with America | 4/2/25

For a brief moment, Twitter stopped reading like a machine built to aggravate, divide, and

degrade the people using it.

Instead of the usual sludge of foreign bots and demoralizing propaganda, American users

found themselves thanks to a new auto-translation feature, staring at something unexpected, a

flood of posts from Japan celebrating the United States.

Monster trucks, backyard barbecues, old-west revolvers, bluegrass and country music, and

all the rowdy symbols of American life that our own elites often treat as embarrassing

or suddenly being admired from abroad.

It reminded Americans that our culture is not only real, but vivid enough that another

people can see its beauty even when we've been taught to sneer at it ourselves.

If Americans and Japanese are to continue to enjoy our distinct cultures, we must fight

to maintain the true diversity that makes a civilization worth preserving.

Most Americans know that there's a strong current of appreciation for Japanese culture

in the US.

Americans eat Japanese food, watch anime, read manga, practice karate, and revere samurai

movies.

While we were once in a brutal war, Americans have come to respect the noble and beautiful

traditions of the Japanese.

But many Americans didn't know that the Japanese also have a robust sub-culture of appreciation

for American culture.

Americans are constantly told that they have no culture, or that what they do have is

shallow, vulgar, and unworthy of defense.

In much of a elite life, status comes from mocking the tastes and traditions of ordinary

Americans.

Status in the US and many other Western nations is acquired by looking down on the folkways

of the average American.

It's not just that the Japanese love American culture, but that they seem to focus particularly

on the rural, southern, and western archetypes.

Banjos playing take me home country roads, barbecues grilling comically large steaks, monster

trucks crushing everything below them.

The Japanese love and celebrate everything that American elites have trained the population

at large to sneer at.

Recently, many people have been asking the question, what is an American?

But the Japanese seem to know right away.

There's no confusion, no debate.

The answer is obvious and plays itself out in the memes, reenactments, and celebrations

that Japanese people enjoy while honoring American culture.

Sometimes another people can identify your defining traits more clearly than you can, especially

after your own institutions have spent years trying to dissolve them.

In a period where many people in the United States feel estranged from their own inheritance,

it was oddly heartening to see ourselves reflected in a nation we admire.

If the Japanese know who Americans are, then the least we can do is be proud to act like

the Americans the Japanese love.

The sudden outburst of cultural appreciation also put to bed the idea that Americans are

xenophobes who hate other countries.

Japan's love for the U.S. is reciprocated with great fervor by Americans.

While why are Americans so willing to appreciate and embrace the Japanese while being dismissive

of so many other countries, the answer is simple.

The Japanese are worthy of admiration.

Not all cultures are equal, and the Japanese have emerged from the devastation of a war

to rebuild a high-trust society on a foundation of rich history and honorable conduct.

It turns out that Americans don't hate other cultures, they simply save their appreciation

for the ones that deserve it.

The social media cultural exchange also highlighted the importance of real diversity and the need

to protect distinct cultures.

Both the Americans and Japanese hold reciprocal appreciation for each other's civilization

and want to see them continue into the future.

Americans want our grandchildren to be able to visit Japan in a hundred years and experience

what we celebrate now, and the Japanese feel the same way about the U.S.

An island called Japan that had the same borders and topography, but was filled with Indians,

Palestinians and Somalians, it just wouldn't be the same.

If the island chain of Japan was full of Haitians, it wouldn't be Japan, it would be Haiti

with some cherry blossoms.

That's the point that our modern ideology just can't admit, a nation isn't just a market,

a legal zone or a patch of land inside a set of borders.

It's the Japanese people, their way of life and the culture that they create that defines

the nation.

Japan has been better than most modern nations in protecting its identity, but the country

is under immense pressure to open its borders.

Like much of the modern world, Japan is experiencing a massive decline in birth rates and it's

struggling to care for its elderly population while replacing its workforce.

After dabbling in increased immigration to bolster its workforce, the nation has elected

a right-wing government to reimpose restrictions.

A civilization can survive low birth rates for a time, what it can't survive is replacement.

Americans are beginning to understand the same truth about themselves.

If Japan would cease to be Japan after demographic replacement, then the United States would cease

to be the United States under the same conditions.

America is real, distinct, it's a culture with traditions and folkways and a history

that's worthy of pride.

America isn't just an economy or an administrative zone attached to a flag, we need to stop being

shamed into rejecting our culture or treating it as a banal background for a global empire.

Japan is beautiful because the Japanese have built a civilization worth preserving.

America is beautiful because Americans built a distinct culture worth preserving.

That culture deserves more than ironic detachment or ritual embarrassment, it deserves loyalty.

The Japanese in their odd and affectionate way reminded Americans of something that many

have forgotten.

This country is real, its inheritance is beautiful and it's worth preserving.

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