Off the Cliff

If I have a bête noire in Japanese popular culture, it's Three Kingdoms. Yes, really- Japanese popular culture, not Chinese. (Far too much of a n00b to know anything about Chinese.) There are certain foreign works the Japanese have taken to their bosoms so that now you stumble across them everywhere. Coming Through the Rye is what they got from us: traffic lights play it, and Sakura Sakura for the other direction. Rather more respectably, what they took from China is Three Kingdoms.
( Lookit those purty kanji- sure are a lot of 'em-- OMG it's *Chinese*!! Get back in the car! )