Thread of True Honesty

So why are people interested in Japanese for a reason apart from Animes, Mangas, and Video Games?

Their culture? What do non-Japanese know about Japanese culture?

Only reason I can think of is for Business, and I kinda doubt this is the reason why younger people want to learn the language. The Chinese economy is barely behind Japan and there's just so much more out there in China than in Japan.

No offense,but I'm sure you knew this sounded incredibly ignorant.

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Some people do learn Japanese for the sole purpose of Anime and etc. Often times though, there japanese sucks and if they went to Japan they would sound like a U.S illegal immigrant who doesn't know much english and is working at McDonald's.

1. Japanese, the language itself, interests me.
2. Because I don't know their culture, I want to know more about. What better way to go and live in Japan itself. Realism intact though, I know everything that must be done before hand, learning Japanese is one of them. I dare not enter another non-english dominant country and not speak their language.
3. If I ever master Japanese, I want to learn Korean, then Mandarin.
4. I have little interest in China.

There are people, believe it or not, who are learning Japanese for reasons other than for Anime, Manga and Video Games. There are people who are actually interested in Japan as a whole.
I do like Anime and the such, but I am by no means obsessed by it. And, at least for me, it could not serve as motivation to learn Japanese.