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For what it's worth, Yokosuka is probably the Japanese city most accustomed to Westerners. 4% of the city's population is American.
by hudibras 11y ago
For what it's worth, Yokosuka is probably the Japanese city most accustomed to Westerners. 4% of the city's population is American.
- minikomi 11y agoAnd it most certainly isn't in Tokyo... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka,_Kanagawa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka,_Kanagawa Edit: the article also fails to mention the huge stigma attached with "abandoned" or bad luck homes .. If there's even a hint that someone died there, or that the abandonment was the result of hard luck it can damage a property's worth. Not to mention earthquake readiness of the homes - something on people's minds a lot since Tohoku 3/11.
- sho 11y agoFrom the vibe I got living there, having the locals "accustomed" to westerners in the context of US military presence is probably worse than not being accustomed at all. Attitude to the US presence in japan is generally ambivalent at best, hostile resentment at worst. The other area familiarity with whiteys isn't exactly a positive is in some towns around Hokkaido. There, the experience is with russian fishermen, and the sentiment is clearly visible on signs by the door: "no foreigners". All that said, I never was that bothered by the mild xenophobia one experiences in Japan (and elsewhere in east asia). It's bemusing more than anything else. I would imagine that non-caucasians have it somewhat worse, though.