Eric Clapton

Fifty years or so ago, a college professor teaching English literature in Japan, went to US where he had a conversation with a young female student.
"Mr. Tanaka, you talked about lace problems in America, but we have not lace problems here, you know."
"How can you say you do not have lace problems? You have white, yellow, red, and black laces. Isn't it a problem?"
"Not at all. But I didn't know they are such colorful."
As you already know he meant "race" but he was saying "lace".
When a Japanese company opened a branch office in LA and in its opening ceremony the Japanese boss made American employees stood in a row to welcome the president who was entering the party room. When the president came in, they just stood with smiles on their faces. The boss was upset. He shouted "Crap, crap, to your president!"... Of course "clap".
It is said that Japanese does not have the sound of "L". When we begin to learn English we tend to make a mistake like the latter example, "R" for "L". But as our study progresses, we pay attention to the sound of "L" too much so that we make all the "R" and "L" sound like "L" as is in the first example. The pendulum swings.
I once asked an Amercan which "ら" in Japanese sounds like more similar, "Ra" or "La". I pronounced "ら" to him. "hmm,... neither". he said.
Against our common belief, "R" sounds different from "ら" because when they pronounce it, their tongue never touches their upper palate.
If there is such a thing as Japanese English, there are Indian English, French English, Chinese English... so many. Most of the non-native English speakers have left a tint of their mother language in their spoken English. I get to tell sometimes which country he or she comes from by hearing their English. Of course they have individual difference but there is something common in their English that tells me their origin. Japanese English is the easiest for me to catch. But somehow Korean English is also not so difficult to hear. One of the reasons is they speak slowly. To me Indian English is the hardest in general. They are fluent English speakers with their special "r" sounds.
English is becoming an international language. We should not be intimidated even if we sometimes say like "Eric Crap-ton is my favorite musician."