I am currently in a interracial relationship of 5 months. My girlfriend is a student at my university and is from China.
It's not a fetish thing for me, it just so happened that we had a few interests in common and then we spent time together as friends for about a month and then she agreed to date me. However, there were a few times where some white and black guys would come up to me and whisper to me ''living the American dream huh?'' and then I would laugh a little.
There are some aspects of her personality where it is much more appealing than girls from North America because of her background, and there are other aspects of her that stem from her individual personality. So whenever there is an argument or disagreement I would not be like ''Oh, it's because she's Asian.''
Sorry to hear about the Japanese girl Acheron, just keep in mind that she probably got an overload of an earful when she went back to Japan.