What are your motivations or goals that make you learn Japanese?
Mine was at the beginning to be able to read Visual Novels, but now is more than that, I like to learn more and there are few sensations like understanding new "symbols" as words.
I think source of the motivation for most of us -and also for me- is Japanese culture and their marketing or presentation success of the culture. Of course Japan has so many positive contributions to the world but like every country/culture they have good and bad sides. And the difference is emereges here. They know how to highligt the good sides then takes the peoples attentions