I just checked the first ten X Japan videos I could find on youtube, not a single one of them had a recent negative comment on them except silly people thinking they shouldn't reunite cus of hide being dead (quite a few for that matter, I hope Yoshiki won't get too bothered by it), so, where do you find those people anyway? I've never really encountered someone who talked shit about the Japanese as a people. I did hear people who think they're weird, but that's another story. Okay, I've met some who have a bit of a "A number one, top of the hill, king of the heap"-attitude but that's just their own ignorance and it's not really racism (they have similar attitudes to people who don't look as good as them or are short, believe me, I know what they're like). I call them .......*drumroll*..... Stupid people.
Back to the subject I guess I have to admit I think that the Asian rock (I'm guessing we're talking about the same kind of rock here, nowadays people even call certain pop music as rock) scene isn't putting out as good music as the Western one. My theory would be it's simply because metal/rock is more popular here, and also, it usually seems so important with success for some of these Japanese bands that they get commercialized and adapt a mainstream sound which make the whole thing somewhat boring. X is one of the best metal/rock acts to ever have existed though (maybe this sentence didn't make that much sense to be put here but I just wanted to).
I have a question, somewhat off-topic. Don't you think many Japanese people have something of a "A number one, top of the hill, king of the heap"-attitude when it comes to Asian matters?