the OP was wondering if after a year they would be able to write an objectionable article about their experience... definitely another year might help. Regardle

the OP was wondering if after a year they would be able to write an objectionable article about their experience... definitely another year might help. Regardless I'm still happy they shared their experiences. The comments on HN are mostly disturbed by the self-righteous tone of the article. This phrase is probably around the centre of that tone [highlight mine]: > a poor excuse for attitudes that would be met with derision in more [enlightened 21st-century countries] Also the author finds problems in Japan that they seem to ignore in many other places: > It was somewhere I lived for 10 years, it was never my home, could never have been my home. Regardless of how good my Japanese language skills became or how much I had tried to become like them, I would never have been fully accepted, never been allowed in the club. Basically it sounds almost like the author is saying that they just like to live where they are part of the native majority. Because, I think you will experience this everywhere. I've seen and experienced exactly the same in the following countries (In order of level disgustingness at which the 'not-part-of-our-society' is shovelled out): Israel, US, Germany. But still there is a lot in the article worth reading if one can get through the tone. Specifically the legal architecture.