[Ronin4hire]

I've heard of this phenomenon before.

I've never been to Japan before but I really doubt that this is unique to Japan. There are girls everywhere that like "mysterious" foriegn guys.

While living and working in America for example, my accent and my "foriegn-ness" got a lot of attention from some American women.

I was quite flattered by the attention I got... and I didn't have an aversion to women from my own country nor do I feel like social outcast in my home country (New Zealand).

Not exactly the answer you were looking for maybe but there's my two cents.