Attractive Accents in Japan?

Question:

Hello everybody,

I'm curious about something.

In North America, people generally find certain accents appealing, and others not. For example, a fair number of women like hearing English speakers who have an Italian, French, or Spanish accent.

I'm wondering how accents are viewed from Japan? (As in, someone from another country trying to speak Japanese).

Thanks for your time! Have a nice day.

Answer:

In North America (and other countries with English as an official language) people rarely say "your English is good!" even toward people who speak "broken English". But in Japan, people would show their surprise first and flatter "oh, you speak good Japanese (in Japanese)" if they hear a non-Japanese(-looking) person speaking Japanese.
*Imagine you go to Kenya and speak Swahili, people wouldn't care your accents but would be only impressed)

About foreigner's Japanese accents; Native English speakers, especially those who have NO background of second language, seem to struggle with learning/pronouncing Japanese the most (they seem to be spoiled, believing "English is international language"), having stronger accents. Spanish, Italian, Slavic people sound ok because their languages have similar vowels (a e i o u) or R to Japanese ones, and they don't depend on their first language as English-speaking people usually do.