Which of the two is more studied as a foreign language in yr country?
Popularity of Russian PK Japanese
In Brazil, Japanese (I think). Besides Japanese pop culture being very influential (even before the manga-craze a whole generation grew up watching japanese shows on television, like Jaspion), there's a lot of nipo-brazilians.
Among Brazilian intelligentsia Russian gets a lot of attention, but very few people seem to actually learn it.
Among Brazilian intelligentsia Russian gets a lot of attention, but very few people seem to actually learn it.
In China, Japanese is much more widely studied than Russian now, though it was ever quite the opposite a few decades ago.
In the US I'm sure it varies widely by state... In general though Japanese is more widely studied, although Russian is in the top ten and was, as of 2006, more popular than Arabic.