True. Both are quite prevalent, and I'm not sure which one is more. But the western left tends to focus on the Asians. It's the same deal with their respective countries. Right wing people also praise countries like Poland, Hungary, and even Russia a lot, but you rarely hear it talked about in other circles. There tends to be this media focus on how they praise Japan and like anime, which plays into my theory that the left is unnerved by those damn dirty white racists sharing common ground with non-white people and cultures because that's not how the world as they've defined it is supposed to work. The idea that maybe the way they've defined the world is wrong isn't something they can countenance.