Just once, I want a Japanese author to praise something not Japanese. I grew up in Japan. I don't go jizzing my pants every time I hear the word Hot Spring, or rice, or bath, or curry (for some fucking reason), or whatever. NGL, my Japanese friends love rice. But they also love pizza, Warcraft, guns, Disneyworld, and WRXs. Oh, that last one's Japanese. Shit.
And yes, my friends are nerds. So am I.