My interest in Japan isn't very amazing. I like how asian people look and where I used to live we rarely saw any of them. I ended up getting into Anime and Manga, and my mom traveled when she was my age which made me more interested in it. I'm your typical anime nerd, that was until I met a lot of foreign people on a game I play. Being interested in traveling, and majoring in languages I asked a lot about their home and eventually am at the point I am today. I've very interested in Vietnam, and Korea and hope to be traveling there within the next few years.
It's easier for me to be interested in a country when I have someone who lived there talking to me.