@freepatriot

Because the United States of America helped rebuild Japan during world war 2 and because Japan tried to copy Europe during the Meiji restoration

Where as Romania has problems tracing back to Marxist Judeo-Communism

I've never even visited Romania, so I cannot compare them myself, but on what metric are you basing this?

Seems implausible to me.

There are a great many non-white countries freer than typical (non-US) white countries, but Japan sure isn't one of them...