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If you're not Japanese, a lot of things will be a nightmare. Japan is incredibly racist and xenophobic. It also has a criminal justice system that convicts eve

• kmeisthax 2y ago
  Your sentence needs a lot of qualifiers. i.e. Older Japanese are incredibly racist to Koreans and Chinese, and also mildly xenophobic. Even then, the racism and xenophobia get played up a lot in western media (or at least anime fandom). It'd be like insisting every American is like Old Man Jonathan Joestar swinging his arm in the airport about how he hates Japanese people so much[0]. Were there a lot of Americans who hated the Japanese exactly in that way? Yes. Is that an accurate depiction of Americans? Not really. Japanese criminal judges have a high conviction rate because of two reasons: - Japanese prosecutors are extremely selective about what charges they bring forward and often drop cases for lack of evidence. - Falsely accused Japanese will often confess to a crime they didn't commit due to social pressure. To be clear, the latter is an active social problem. But it's not the one most westerners think of when they think of the Japanese criminal justice system. I can't speak to the Black experience in Japan, so I'll keep my mouth shut about that. [0] Keep in mind this character was last seen fighting a bunch of super-vampires alongside a bunch of literal Nazis during WWII