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Originally Posted by YoshimiTheEthereal
I want to visit Japan to see if I would want to live there because I think it would offer me happiness and opportunities that I cannot have in the US.
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To be frank I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to go to Japan just for the Anime as long as people have realistic expectations.
Some of them being:
- If you don't speak the language and want to live there, it will be like living hell so make the effort and learn the language (easier said than done) and definitely don't expect anyone to speak English.
- There is discrimination, sometimes positive, sometimes negative but Japan is not a immigration based country like US or Canada. It is not a taboo to be discriminatory.
- Living conditions will be different especially in cities. If you are claustrophobic, you will suffer.
- Not everyone likes Anime (shock horror). Otaku has the same connotation as "geek" in Japan, and not something to be proud of.
Of course there is heaps of others but thats just for starters. Then after you got language skills ironed out, you still have to find a job and to be frank, once you are working, it's pretty much the same anywhere in the world.