I am searching for information on what picture japanese, and specially
younger people in or around their teens from japan, have about germany
and german culture.

Whether they have any opinion on that matter at all, what they like,
what they dislike, which prejudices are common.
Most important what they like or would find interesting.

More details:
There is currently a large trend among german teens for parts of the
japanese culture (mainly manga and anime but also much more).
It is no problem to find information about that, however I am
interested in exactly the opposite direction: Whether there are any
such trends, albeit smaller ones, *in* Japan *for* German culture

Basically I am searching for any compact statements, opinions and
comments from japanese teens themselves or from other reliable
sources, statistics would be great too. The more the better :)
Of course finding even one good source seems difficult to me.


Sources in german or english prefered.

(One site I already found which sorta touches the topic i am searching
for is this diary http://www.japanlink.de/special/spe_03_00.shtml, so
this link does not count as an answer :-)


Thanks in advance

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Clarification of Question by zem-ga on 17 Jun 2004 05:19 PDT

No answer so far? Don't be shy! :)
Or is the price too low? 
(Yo can just give me a 10$ answer, leave out the stuff that would cost more :)

I am currently working on a projekt and have a few (offline) sources I
can already use.
Since I am working on it -now- , this answer would help me most if i
could get it soon.
Please don't be too exhaustive, I'd appreciate a short answer today
over a long answer in two days.
I wrote "the more the better", but please do not take that the wrong way. 

I would also be happy if I just had a good reliable source for the
following statements (which I got from a few japanese living here)

- BMW, Mercedes, Porsche are prefered over other cars by many japanese
youth (not bought, I know that teens usually don't own cars)
- German films like "Lola rennt" are more popular over there than one would expect.
- Oliver Kahn is not unknown to japanese teens

These points are not meant as an addditional requirement, you can
answer either these points or the orginal question.
heck, give me anything I can work with and I'll be happy :)

In one of the Goethe Institut books on learning German (sorry, don't
remember which one, but in any case it would be probably good to
contact them for such a project), you have pictures made by teens,
with their vision of Germany. One of them is from Japan. It is a
cheerful picture, full of smiling people, flowers, etc. ... and the
Nazi flag.

My guess is Japanese into science and technology look to Germany, both
past and present, as a roll model.   Neil

Yes, especially that Japanese teens, like all teens in the world, have
posters of Max Planck and Robert Koch in their bedrooms.