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  1. It really depends on the region. Tokyo is definitely expensive, but other cities in Japan are not so expensive. Even Osaka the 2nd biggest city in Japan is much cheaper than Tokyo. For example, when I lived in Osaka, the average rent in Osaka was $500 a month, and food cost about $250 for three meals a day. So, on average, Japan is not as expensive as the USA or Europe. I've lived in California, New York and Sydney in Australia, and the cost of living in those places was roughly three times more expensive than in Osaka.
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  2. Yes, as you can see from the interview, Japanese people, especially young people, are not very interested in America now. The Japanese who experienced the bubble economy in their 40's and older still have an admiration for the U.S tho. In terms of culture, Western music is rarely ranked on Japanese billboards, and most popular movies are Japanese. And recently, the news in Japan has been broadcasting about the discrimination against Asians in terms of Corona and the shooting deaths of black people, so many Japanese honestly do not have a good image of the U.S. Who would want to go to a country where strangers beat you up just because you are Asian?
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  3. > Westerners have this picture of Japan being a perfect society without social issues I don't think so. Looking at social media these days, it seems that more and more people are prejudiced against Japan. If you look at posts about Japan, there are tons of Westerners with an Orientalist mindset say like "all Japanese people work 20 hours a day and rent their families and girlfriends because they are all isolated ".
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  4.  @TeppiaxD  However, looking at the percentage of international marriages in Japan by country, Chinese, Koreans, and Filipina make up the largest percentage, with Westerners making up only a few percent. So in reality, there are far more Asian-Japanese couples than Caucasian-Japanese couples.
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  5. If you complain about living in Japan, you would complain no matter where you go.
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  6. Finland is said to have the best work-life balance in the world, but its birth rate is lower than Japan's. So there is no guarantee that improving the working environment will increase the birth rate. Besides, in Japan in the 70's, the working environment was even worse, but everyone had kids.
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  7. I don't think it's just a Japanese problem that it's hard to get a job because you're a foreigner. A friend of mine studied in the US for 7 years and got a master's degree from an Ivy League school, but he couldn't get a job anywhere and went back to his home country. For example, if there were a foreigner and a Japanese with the same abilities, most companies would give priority to hiring the Japanese. Well, it's not so much about discrimination as it is about the company's own benefit.
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  8. In Japan, Naruto is more popular in manga than in anime. And I don't think the animated Naruto is that good.
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  9. Why do you think the birth rate in Finland, which is said to have the best work-life balance in the world, is lower than in Japan?
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  10.  @AngelSaturn-l9n  Number of international marriages in Japan in 2019 >Japanese male and non-Japanese female couples 14,911 >Japanese female and non-Japanese male couples 7,008 In fact, there are more international marriages for Japanese men than for Japanese women, and international marriages themselves are still few in Japan to begin with. I live in Japan and I have never seen a Japanese woman who married a foreigner because she was fed up with Japanese men. You don't have to change the subject to gender issues.
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  11. Nah, he's just crazy, most Japanese people think Okinawans are Japanese. And a lot of the younger generation in Japan don't even know that Okinawa was a separate country in the first place.
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  12. But Japan has become an economic powerhouse because people work hard. Japan is a country with few resources, so the only way to develop the economy is for the people to work.
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  13. Dress codes exist in many countries, not just Japan. For example, if a Japanese person wears Harajuku style clothes or a maid costume in the west, many people will make fun of him or her. And I once saw a video of Westerners evaluating Japanese fashion and most of them said that Japanese fashion is " lame", "looks like gay", and "not acceptable in my country". I once saw a documentary about a white woman whose gothic-lolita fashion was discriminated against and ridiculed in her country. In the same way, half-naked fashion is just not accepted in Japan. Every country has its own dress code. And even in the West, fancy restaurants have strict dress codes and will not let you in wearing a T-shirt and sandals. Are you trying to impose the idea that "I have the freedom to wear what I want" and enter such restaurants in a fashion that violates the dress code? Westerners say that there is freedom and diversity in going half-naked, but after all, the only fashion that is acceptable in the West is Western-style fashion. And in terms of fashion diversity, Japan definitely has it. I've lived in the US, Japan, and Europe, and it seems to me that Westerners wear the same clothes all year round and are much more conservative in their fashion. Oh, and there's also the issue of political correctness. Especially in the U.S., for example, if a non-Japanese wears Japanese clothes, it is criticized as "That's political correctness! In fact, many American celebrities have apologized because they wore kimono. This does not happen in Japan, where people are free to wear kimonos no matter where they are from.
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  14. I'm not Japanese, but if I were to be interviewed like this, I would be polite and give opinions that would not be controversial. People like to use the word “tatemae” and make it a uniquely Japanese thing, but non-Japanese do it too.
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  15. The US is better off economically, but has too many social issues. China is a communist country that I would never want to live in and their bubble has started to burst. Germany is actually in the same or worse economic situation than Japan. And because of the large number of immigrants, the collapse has begun. Germany exceeded Japan's gdp, but its economic growth rate in 2023 was less than Japan's. Japan seems to be better off than other countries.
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  16.  @TheSpiritBeaver  >it's still a nation of people who are conditioned to not really say what they mean when they put it out there. As for immigration, Westerners don't really speak their minds, though. In fact, many Westerners oppose immigration, yet few speak out in public against it. This is because in the West, if you are against immigration, you are labeled a racist.
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  17. I prefer shy women, because noisy women are tiring and annoying to be with
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  18. If all foreigners spoke Japanese and followed Japanese rules, Japanese would.
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  19. ​ @carolsakaguchi3739  it's not just in Japan. For example, when I was abroad in the United States, Americans hung out with other Americans, and international students hung out with other international students. I would say more than 90% were split between Americans and foreigners. And during a group presentation, all of them were Americans except me, but they didn't share some information with me. And when you go to the streets, even amongst Americans, whites were only with whites only, blacks were walking with blacks, Hispanics were hanging out with Hispanics. this is the reality, even in America, which is known as a melting pot of races.
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  20. simple answer: depends on the company
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  21.  @JJJ-bx4ky  Yeah, that's right, but in this commenter section here don't seem to want to admit that fact because of the stereotype of Japanese men as conservative and racist and Japanese women as open-minded lol
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  22. Hafu are not treated as Japanese because many of them do not want to fit into Japanese society. For example, they stay away from Japanese people and stay with other foreigners or other half-Japanese people. And in my experience, many of them complain about Japan and Japanese people all the time. Many of them grew up with western and American influences, so they impose western values on Japan and say that Japan is behind compared to the west. Recently, a half named Hanako Montgomery was criticizing the Japanese manga industry as a reporter for vice media. No wonder these people are not accepted in Japanese society. It's not about how they look, it's about how they think.
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  23. It depends on the person, foreigner or not. I saw a discussion on reddit about this, and many foreigners living in Japan said they had never had such an experience. And I saw Japanese opinions and they said they avoided foreigners because some foreigners have strong perfume and deodorant smells and they didn't want to sit next to foreigners because they sat with their legs spread. I have been living in Japan for 5 years now, and I have never had a Japanese person avoid me because I have made an effort to integrate into Japan. I mean in most cases, it is not because you are a foreigner that Japanese people are avoiding you, but because you have problems of your own.
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  24. You're right. most Japanese prefer darker hair, and blonde hair was popular about 20 years ago, when there were a lot of "gyaru".　 Many of the half-Japanese and foreigners who appear in these interviews do not really understand Japan and Japanese.
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  25. I've lived in Japan over 10 year and I have no problem living in Japan. First of all, Japan is a safe country. You can go out alone even at 2 am. You can live a stress-free life without worrying about anything. People say that Japan is a strict country, but it is this strictness that gives us order and safety. This is one of the most important things in life.
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  26.  @Vieen1810  Not really. If you look at Japanese Instagram, posts about Western fashion and makeup are only 1/100th of those about Korean makeup and fashion. And in Japan, Western movies and music are almost unpopular, and there is almost no buzz about the West. Yeah, that was the case in Japan about 30 years ago, but not anymore. But many whites still think "Japanese must admire whites!"
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  27. Thanks Chat GPT
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  28. Japan is basically safe everywhere you go. In the U.S., safety varies by area. That means it's not safe by Japanese standards.
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  29. There are only two types of guys in Japan, huh...? I'm a Japanese guy but I wonder which type I am.
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  30. @AIIIAKS-vn4co In fact, the video was viral on Japanese social media, and most Japanese were disgusted by their views, which means that their opinions are clearly controversial and unacceptable, even among Japanese. And it was apparently filmed in Kabukicho, the most sexually open area in Japan so it would be like asking a question in the red light district in the Netherlands. However, many viewers who watch this video will have the misconception that this is a common value among Japanese people which is the biggest problem. And as many have pointed out before, it bothers me that he translates "風俗" as prostitution.
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  31. ​ @TheShotgunShovel  I don't think the Japanese are cold or uncaring. If they really were uncaring, they wouldn't pick up a stranger's wallet and hand it to you.
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  32. Yeah, honestly, I'm surprised she's misinformed despite being a TOP University student. Japan's current suicide rate is half what it was 20 years ago.
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  33. Discrimination in Japan is not that big of a deal compared to other countries. For example, a friend of mine who lives in the U.S. has been sprayed with water and called racist things by strangers, and he has witnessed two attacks on Asians in the past year. This kind of thing doesn't happen in Japan. Japan would be much better because there is no risk of death.
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  34. But Japan has become an economic powerhouse because people work hard. Japan is a country with few resources, so the only way to develop the economy is for the people to work.
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  35. It is possible that these restaurants are not rejecting foreigners, but first-time customers. Historically, some areas in Japan had and still have a "一見さんお断り" rule. Under this rule, only acquaintance, local people or invited guests are allowed to enter a restaurant. Therefore, you are not allowed to enter such restaurants whether you're a foreigner or Japanese.
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  36.  @aqua123670  Go to Tasmania and you'll be welcomed by some of the most conservative and racist people in western society.
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  37. Because those anime are more like classic than a trend today. For example, if you ask young people about their favorite musician, most of them won't give you the Beatles or the Rolling Stones, because they aren't trend.
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  38. The reason why Japanese people feel freedom when they go abroad is because they just arrived and don't know local rules and culture of the country yet. If you look at social media of Japanese people who moved to Europe, many of them said that they have lived there for more than 10 years and realized that there are actually more rules in Europe than in Japan. Professor Yusuke Narita, a Japanese sociologist and at Yale University, said, "It is a lie that Japan has strong peer pressure and other countries do not. Each country has different peer pressure. When you live in a certain country as a foreigner, you cannot assimilate into that country to the point where you feel the peer pressure, so in many cases there is no peer pressure and you just feel free". In fact, some Japanese, like her, continue to live abroad, but many eventually return to Japan.
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  39. Really? I saw a news story about an Asian attack in the New York subway and the victim said, "The people nearby didn't even look at me while I was being attacked." And in the same news story, an Asian woman was attacked in New York City and even the security guards nearby abandoned her. Have you never heard of Murder of Kitty Genovese? It happened in the U.S., a woman was attacked by a man in the middle of the night, and 38 residents of a nearby apartment building saw it and heard her screams, but no one helped her or even called the police. Eventually, the police came a few hours later, but she was killed. Residents said they didn't help her because they thought someone else would.
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  40. This is because the Constitution of Japan states that the entry and exit of Japanese nationals is absolutely guaranteed, but foreigners are not. You may think this is discriminatory but this constitution was made by the US after the war.
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  41.  @Ok-oo2kh  It is not that the Japanese literally treat them as foreigners. In fact, in Japan, the term "顔が濃い" or "外国人っぽい" is used as a compliment. So, there are Japanese people who say "you look like a foreigner" to Japanese people with strong features, but this does not mean that they do not treat them as Japanese, but rather that they look foreign and attractive. For example, in Japan, for a long time, words such as "un-Japanese" were used to describe excellent Japanese athletes in sports, etc. So it is quite a misconception that the Japanese treat Okinawans and others as foreigners.
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  42. no I don't wanna see serious ones. It's exhausting to watch and the comment section is always full of invective.
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  43. > Akira, Ghost In The Shell and Evangelion Those anime are also popular in Japan. In the first place, those animations were exported overseas because they were really popular in Japan.
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  44. Many believe that improving Japan's working environment will increase the birth rate, but unfortunately, it won't. In the 70's, Japan was working much longer hours and in a much worse environment than today, yet the birth rate was twice as high as today. And Finland is said to have the best work-life balance in the world, but Finland's birth rate is lower than Japan's.
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  45. Isn't that obvious? Most people not only Japanese think of caucasians when they hear the word "Westerner. If you were to ask an American about the Japanese, do you think anyone would imagine a black person or a white person?
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  46. I don't know about the countryside, but you can use PASMO and other electronic payment cards for transportation in urban areas in Japan.
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  47. not really, they prefer Japanese women. Japan has the lowest rate of international marriages in the developed world.
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  48. then? Are you trying to say that Korea is superior to Japan?
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  49. Not the highest. According to 2022 statistics, Japan's suicide rate was the 49th highest in the world. Suicide rates in the USA and Finland were higher than in Japan.
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  50. but the divorce rate for international couples in japan is over 60% lol
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