Really? People in Japan are at least minimally aware of libertarian ideas? I'd like to see the source on that...
For example, compare the size and quality of multilingual Wikipedia entries on Ayn Rand (
EN/
JA/
ZH), Anarcho-Capitalism (
EN/
JA/
ZH), or the Austrian School of economics (
EN/
JA/
ZH), and other similar articles. There are many reasons why the Japanese version should be better than the Chinese version: Wikipedia is blocked in mainland China, Japanese people should have better access to political books, the Japanese Wikipedia is generally
2.3 times bigger, Japanese kana characters are less compact so the text could appear longer, etc. And yet the Chinese version blows the Japanese version away, not just in the length of those articles, but also in descriptiveness and links to similar articles!