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Beats me, I've always wondered that myself.  It seems nearly all my friends have gone off to Japan at some point for the customary 'between uni and work, don't know what to do' period.  The Japanese are completely different to those of us in the West, so maybe that's why we're fascinated in them.  I say 'we', but I don't include myself in that.  I find the whole phenomena quite tedious.