In my time in Japan, I felt an overwhelming lack of diversity which really shocked me in comparison to my home country of Australia. I now realise this is becau

In my time in Japan, I felt an overwhelming lack of diversity which really shocked me in comparison to my home country of Australia. I now realise this is because one in four permanent residents of Australia were born overseas (2006 census). In comparison, Japan has very little migration. This makes it seem like a special kind of bubble, able to sustain many interesting and valuable cultural aspects at the cost of some social stagnation. Then again, maybe I'm just biased towards the kind of place I grew up in.