Sanglamorre
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It's an old game the West plays. America has been controlling the Western narrative for a long time now. They did the exact same thing with China and the "yellow" races in past. In contemporary media, the "Chinaman" was portrayed as dirty, smelly and rapists who would rape white women. America and Europe had very anti-east immigration policies when the West was still trying to colonise China. Fear of East Asia was whipped up in media to fuel public rage and justification. You might read up on Boxer Rebellion and the public hysteria that was whipped up by Western powers+Russia.^^ Perverts are every where but generally all Eastern cultures (including India) rape rate is very low but why India has bad reputation ?
Generally East Asians blindly worships west(culture/habits/life style etc) where as Communist China and Hindu India are threat to judo-xtian Western world order in future that is why they spew venom against India &China in their (Western) propaganda media.
The same game is being played against India now.
As for Japan, another old trope of the "Noble Savage" comes into play. Japan was never a threat for the vast Western powers, especially USA. They were a much lesser threat than China, yet you'd see the same rhetoric against them in thelast 1800s. Japan, the tiny country, further weakened by strictly enforced isolation policy was not prepared for Westen gunships and canons and thereby had to roll over when Admiral Perry of USA rolled in with his infamous black ships in Tokyo Bay and held the capital to ransom. Japan simply rolled over and opened itself.
But, you can still see the lasting trauma and indignation even today. Notably, Japanese art started to portray their demons and stuff having western features...like a large nose of Tengus. Even today, one of the most popular tropes in Japanese films, anime is that of a monster/alien appearing from sea and threatening Tokyo. Heck, Godzilla is basically a Japanese fantasy of being able to protect Japan from USA.