>> Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. I was under the impression from friends who taught English there and other family members who worked ther

>> Japan back into a far-right, ultra-racist country. I was under the impression from friends who taught English there and other family members who worked there in various positions, this is how the country has always been - exclusionary to outsiders, racist and very intolerant to outsiders. Was there a time (I lost track of the country after the first dot com bust in 2001) that the country wasn't like that? I'm genuinely curious.