You can talk about how they're all about the group, rather than the individual, or about their traditionally delicate artistic sensitivities, or about how mind-bogglingly hard-working they are, or how they came up with classy ways to waste time, i.e. the tea ceremony, the flower arranging ceremony, etc., etc.
That's all well and good and it's a small world and it takes every kinda people, yada.
But when you think in terms of low-end material culture, you simply have to admit that nobody knows cute like the Japanese know cute. Nobody. Could any other culture have come up with Hello Kitty? I don't think so. Could any other culture have come up with lustreware figurines of cats playing fiddles, or roosters wearing clothes, or a dog sleep-walking?
A DOG SLEEP-WALKING??? I think not. 
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