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Originally Posted by burkhartdesu
This is your first problem. You probably went with no clue of what Japan is really like. It's not some romanticized "anime world".
They don't "hate whites". I like how you make it seem so factual, when in reality you have an extremely shallow sense of what Japanese people are like. You are apparently disgruntled about the whole thing-- but seriously, your username is "biggestmistake"... You're obviously a little biased about the whole situation.
I've been to Japan, and to me they are unusually polite to Westerners. Throughout all my travel I did not once receive any negative attention nor did I see any "No foreigners" signs. It was nearly the complete opposite, Japan is one of the most humble and hospitality filled places you can visit-- especially if you're white.
Japan, unsafe? If you are seriously from Detroit, you have to be kidding me.
You were only out for 3 days. In Tokyo, I assume?
Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world-- and Tokyo is the only city I've been where you can walk around at near midnight and have no worries. I find it really hard to believe you were mugged in broad daylight... The Japanese police are extremely proficient and would go to extreme lengths to help you find a lost umbrella, let-a-alone a full blown mugging.
Maybe you can give us some details?
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Seriously, you can't blame someone on how they are bias against something that scarred them emotionally. It takes time for those problems to go away. Hypothetically going by if his story is true, I'd myself hold some grudges to trips to Japan. Obviously he/she has lost a lot of their self-esteem after quite some tragedy, to what was expected to be better.
Though I admit this is the first time I've heard anyone become this unlucky. So that's the point, he/she was just extremely unlucky.
Only way for them to change their mind is have enough courage one day to return, and not visit the same areas, and if so, hopefully have better company.
Generally, there are good and bad sides to everything, I wouldn't say Japan is nearly perfect nor any other country for that matter.
It is possible for any of those things to happen to anyone on any given time for the day. Anyone believing Japan is near perfect is quite bias already. Bad things do exist.