I''m sorry I left so quickly yesterday, Gloobey had me so rialled
. As if Japan might have been the "only" country with racizm, or other problems. We have a tendency to do the samething in other countries (avoid people that are from other places). Just because we might be spoken to and can't understand them. Even in this little town I'm in we have a wide veriety of foreign visitors; English, South African, Ucranian, Japaneses (which I do find to be quite shy), Swedish, Norwegen, German, etc. And I try to at least give them a friendly smile to let them know that I welcome them. I only hope they understand.
I lived in Denver for a while, and found I couldn't even make eye contact with anyone except a sales person. That was an adventure!
My point being that, even in the US each city or town differs. Why wouldn't Japan?