It still pops up from time to time, BTW. "Weird Japan" or "Tee hee the Japanese are So QUIRKY" with the Yakuza series, for example. Or when they slam Japanese games for "representation" because that word means something different outside of America. It's all racism.
H.K // デビル零 #PlayMoreVFI genuinely think we’d be in a better place right now if English gaming media could’ve flushed all the casual racism towards Japanese art out of its system by 2010 or so. Instead everyone just saw the rise of AAA western games as a means to double down on that shit