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Originally Posted by biggestmistake
As an anime fan it had always been my dream to go to japan. But when i went it was a total nightmare.
See...my uncle works for a travel agency so i was able to go to japan for a pretty low price. Despite the low price this is easily the biggest waste of money i have ever spent. I was shocked to see how racist japan is! They HATE whites. Everyone there gave me dirty looks, they were rude as all hell to me, and once when i went into a store one of the guys who worked here yelled "no foreigner!!!! no foreigner!!!!" After that i noticed that TONS of businesses had signs saying "No foreigners" "No westerners" and for some reason "no filipinos" Worst of all i was mugged in broad daylight and when i went to report this to the police they didnt seem to care and made me feel like i was wasting their time. This all happened my first 3 days there... after all this crap happened to me i scrapped the rest of my plans and spent the rest of my time there alone in my hotel room.
I have never felt so unwelcome and unsafe anywhere in my life.....and im from the worst part of detroit, and im glad to be back.
Just wanted to share my experience with everyone.
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I can imagine the employees shouting "No foreigner!"... That's pretty funny.
I have to be honest, I think you were just unlucky.
In addition to my own experience there, I have met and talked to virtually hundreds of other "foreigners" who have visited and had a great time. This isn't to say that I haven't heard or noticed bad things about Japan; However, in this case, the positives out-weigh the negatives.
If you still like Japan, I think you should definitely give it another try -- perhaps in another city/province. Afterall, no experience is ever exactly same, and if there are bad experiences to be had there, there are also good.
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Originally Posted by noodle
One of the most international cities in the world? I doubt Tokyo can really be called that. From what I can remember, Tokyo population has roughly 2.5% foreigners. Out of those 2.5%, 2/3 are East Asian. So that leaves lets say 1% of foreigners that don't look anything like Japanese.
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Do these estimations include people who live there
as well as people who visit?