> This seems like a very hand-wavy comparison. That's a pretty ungenerous response when I was asking in good faith to understand, even expressing my own ignora

> This seems like a very hand-wavy comparison. That's a pretty ungenerous response when I was asking in good faith to understand, even expressing my own ignorance. I only know people that hold dual citizenship, and their experience of Japan certainly isn't some big step down from the US.