Coming from Europe I found Japan to be the way you describe the USA, at first I blamed it all on Asian culture, but only a part of it is actually the fault of Asian culture, some of it is culture imported from the USA.

Mainly the hyper-capitalist stuff and not caring about people who don't have money. Things like allowing bad chemicals in the foods, allowing companies to do pretty much anything they want to their employees, etc.

Japan does have some earlier European influence and I think then a lot of USA influence after WW2 so its like a mix of both plus Asia.

Weird place, I'm curious to see what will be it's future, it's like a strange experiment, also the fact they have such a high density population and have to import everything, and they have China right there, very strange place.