Modern Japan infuences our art quite a bit (manly due to anime and manga (check the CG TMNT series on nickelodieon as an example)) and also the fact that we kinda also make fun of them a lot (check family guy for that one)
Or if you dont want pop culture, you may wanna go for the fatc that the greeks influenced the romans a lot with the gods and also with that the renasance too was influenced by both the Greeks and the Romans art and archetecture.
