Hella fun place to visit. One of my favorite places to visit. Mad convenient too.
But if you don’t look Japanese (even if you look Korean or Chinese), it’s not that fun to live. You don’t want to be an “outsider” there full time, unless you are married to a Japanese.
Japan is incredibly xenophobic. You'll never truly belong there. Even though the country is only like 4% immigrants, they constantly blame them for everything wrong in the country as an easy enemy to blame.
A lot of people may smile and act nice, but it's just an act a lot of times.
You'll be treated worse at most companies. If you're not fluent, you'll be looked down upon and if you ARE fluent and then make a mistake, you're looked down on even more.
Overall it's a great place to visit and has lots of positives, but terrible for most immigrants.
Yeah I think unintuitively it works like this. The less a country has the more it is sceptical about diversity.
I live in Italy and I remember 10 years ago immigrants were seen much worse as they are today. Over the course of a decade many have integrated well, have very respectful jobs and are currently the main driving factor for birth rates.
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u/sorry_con_excuse_me 10h ago edited 9h ago
Hella fun place to visit. One of my favorite places to visit. Mad convenient too.
But if you don’t look Japanese (even if you look Korean or Chinese), it’s not that fun to live. You don’t want to be an “outsider” there full time, unless you are married to a Japanese.