> You can read the accounts of plenty of expats who have lived in Japan the frequent struggles they face as foreigners, with the entire system being set up to p

> You can read the accounts of plenty of expats who have lived in Japan the frequent struggles they face as foreigners, with the entire system being set up to put them at a disadvantage. I've read them, and I disagree with 99% of them. Sure, there's a couple legit ones, but the vast majority are massively exaggerated. Especially sites like Debito. If you go on reddit's Japan forum (/r/Japan), you mention debito, you'll get laughed at. The guy literally profits from pointing out discrimination and intolerance in Japan. That's how he makes his money so it's in his interest to exaggerate everything. He's written books on the matter. I don't really want to come across as some overly liberal social justice warrior, but most of those complaints you speak of aren't justified. As I stated above, it's just 20-something white kids not getting treated the same as they did back home and they're not used to it. They're used to people bending over backwards for them, receiving handouts and not being ignored. They were sheltered most of their lives (as were the majority of all millennials) so when they get to Japan and get treated differently, all of the sudden it has to be "racism". That's really what's happening here. They're conflating their culture shock with racism. I'm an expat myself. I've spoken of my time in Japan here on hackernews several times. I find it's no more racist than any other country I've traveled too. In fact, it's probably the least racist country I've been to, only behind America. Hell, I saw more racism in Sydney the last time I was there.