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Originally Posted by callagga
So outside of the big cities in Japan, do you think people here would typically know less English than say if you were in France outside of the big cities?
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You cannot compare Japan with other European countries, the percent of English speaking folks is just not the same. Most European countries made their tourist hot spot as tourist friendly as possible, also there is the fact that being Europe, most of the population is educated in English enough to communicate. While there are enough people who have knowledge to the English language in Japan, very few actually felt comfortable enough to use it. Japan is definitely a tourist friendly country, but it just doesn't have enough English speaking folks around.
It will not harm to learn a few simple phrase.