I think China is a bit higher on the list now.
Worked for a Japanese company. The called me a “barbarian” all the time. I said thank you, and that is why we are here. If I wasn’t a barbarian, you wouldn’t bring me to negotiations.
I like the people I worked for, but they always viewed non Japanese as not quite human. That included people like on of the engineers I worked with who had been living in Chicago for five years. He was no longer “Japanese”.
I think it has to do with purity of the gene pool. It’s not indiscriminate. They think the more outside blending with the gene pool, the more barbaric the people are.
They would look at Blue eyed blonde haired Swedes being high on the list.