> Cyberpunk was thinly-veiled xenophobia about the Japanese In both Stephenson (Snow Crash doesn't even feature Japan or Japanese much from memory) and Neuroma

> Cyberpunk was thinly-veiled xenophobia about the Japanese In both Stephenson (Snow Crash doesn't even feature Japan or Japanese much from memory) and Neuromancer, it really strikes me as more of fetishization than xenophobia. At the time, Japan was seen as (and maybe was?) ahead of the curve in sociotechnological development so it's natural to have them prominent in near-future sci-fi at the time.