[nicolas_t]

Well, the author who has studied Japanese for a long time didn't even pass the JLPT level 1, so a) he mustn't have studied very hard b) he's not good enough at writing and reading Japanese to be able to comment on it.

Regarding word processors, it is true that a lot of people cannot write kanji by hand but that's orthogonal to literacy. I can barely write legibly in the latin alphabet and that's purely because I almost never need to write by hand but that doesn't stop me from consuming books or writing.

In term of the level of universities here, he does have a bit of a point, the undergraduate level in a lot of universities is very low (it gets better in graduate classes though) but, in my experience, good universities like Todai or Kyodai are much better... That's hardly a problem limited to Japan though, I've seen liberal arts degrees in other countries that weren't worth much more than the paper they were printed on.

And, lastly, I agree with Yifanlu, his claim about writings, movies and music is laughable and show a lack of culture from someone who claims to like Japanese culture.

It's not because someone has been living in a country for x years or that someone claims to admire the culture of the country that that person is not racist. If he makes racist comments then he is racist (a cultural racist to use the correct term in this case) ..