Japan right now has a growing media industry while the West's is greatly diminishing for an unknown reason (cough woke can't write, draw or act for shit). The American establishment want to subvert Japan to use this growing cultural influence to indoctrinate more than be a escape point like many are using it for now.

They'll constantly tout 'population collapse, population collapse' being honest, China's having a worse population decrease than Japan statistically and Japan is smart enough to use tech like there are rural cafés using robot waiters because they couldn't get enough regular staff.

When AI and automation gets even better, they're in a great position to adopt whereas in the west, you're going to see a labour crisis REALLY soon..