You don’t find Taiwanese people friendly? You might be one of the few.
You are right, the figures are ambiguous. Japan leads by GDP while Taiwan leads by GDP per capita (PPP). Thank you for correcting me.
Jp girls for sure have better fashion sense. But yeah, Tw at least not less pretty per se.
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No amount of fashion sense will allow them to hide their crooked teeth.
Japan has things like mass dolphin hunt. Taiji dolphin drive hunt - Wikipedia
“Burger Flipper” has a different meaning there 
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They can have all the girls they want.
isn’t tiger teeth 可愛 in the eyes of many Japanese
A lot of Japanese are sent by their company or come on their own as some type of independent representative trying to do business between Taiwan and Japan. Enough to be on packages and maybe pays for house and kids to go to the Japanese school.
They’re mostly all in Taiwan because of some type of economic incentive or potential opportunity.
Yeah, and the ones who don’t like it come to Taiwan! 
Japan does have good diving in Okinawa. Also some dives are for hammerheads some dives for whales or whale sharks. Also the Japan islands to the east of Taiwan has special dive sites as well.
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On the outside, yes.
Yes, that’s what “being friendly” means. I didn’t say they literally become your friend right away. Of course there are boundaries, especially if you’re coworkers.
I’ve had trouble finding specifics. So far, what little I’ve read here and there seems to be of a general nature, except for the post cited below. This Quora member writes about a few specifics, but he writes about them as if they are either things of the past or things that are fading away:
Maybe I just don’t know where to look.
I think the extent of Japanese culture here is hello kitty and anime.
Vocabulary is also basically the same. Make no mistake about it, Japanese have a leg up compared to others when learning Chinese. Their speaking can be pretty behind, but I put that down to their personal practice and probably shyness - or unwillingness to talk.
I’ve seen teachers try time and again to engage with them in class, its like getting blood from a stone.
I have also had Japanese students with great spoken Chinese too. It makes sense that when you have a leg up you would be lazy in other areas.
I find Japanese and Korean to be pretty nationalistic, so even when they are given the preferential treatment here they still like to constantly blab on about their own countries stuff.
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Having lived in both Taiwan, HK and China, there is definitely a huge Japanese influence here that isn’t found at all in China and HK.
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I don’t think it’s laziness. Japanese speakers have real problems with Chinese tones and pronunciation.
So do westerners. How to overcome it? Speaking practice, parroting etc. I doubt many Japanese bother with that.
Doesn’t help that in class etc. they can ace the tests -which the teachers put great emphasis on probably leading them to believe they are the bee’s knees.
Anyway, it’s just my observations after studying for over a year with classmates from Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia etc.
I’ve known plenty of Japanese speakers who put a lot of effort into tones and pronunciation and still struggled. I think the fact that Japanese has so few sounds in it may have something to do with it. In classes I took, Japanese students often had the worst tones and pronunciation at the end of the term. Of course, they did tend to do well on written tests.
Does it work well in reverse, would it be hard for a taiwanese to pick up japanese?