I honestly don't personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they're either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they're the occasional 'patriot' freak who's nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.
Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.
Also I love how all the objectively toxic parts of East Asian culture are suddenly romanticized if it's Japan or South Korea we're talking about. Stuff like conservative family dynamics, overbearing work culture, predatory consumer fads, fat shaming and openly commenting on how people look, etc.
Tokyo Sky Tree 😍😍😍
I can already hear the "Don't you know they're authoritarian??!!!!! 😡😡😡😡"
Well theyre clearly doing something right