Under the Lee Teng-hui administration in the late 1980s, the ban on Japanese language media programs were lifted and Japanese culture flooded into Taiwan whose citizens quickly became fervent consumers of the latest Japanese television programs as well as trends and fashions which were capable of deeply influencing the youth of Taiwan. In answer to a poll taken in Taiwan in 2009, when asked to name their favorite country, twice, over fifty percent chose Japan, and four times the result was in the low forty percent range, which means that Japan was more popular than every other country in the world combined.