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10-12-2010, 09:59 AM

Not so fast...

While I agree that you can live in Japan without any problem with racism as I have done.

To pretend that there is no problem with racism at all in Japan is a bit too much.

kakaislegend... the fact is that racism exists in Japan. In my experience most Japanese were friendly to me.

But there are problems with it just as there are with any country.

The ambushing of a bus of Chinese tourists during the political row was one example.

I think the best way in dealing with this is just to remember that in Japan there are many people with many different ways of thinking about things. Just like in your own country no doubt.

That should be enough for you to be able to brush off racism should you be unfortunate enough to encounter it.
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