[wrp]

It's not about the objective(?) reality, but public perception. In my Japan days (1980s-90s), American companies were having a terrible time marketing their goods in Japan, because of the Japanese (often wrong) presumption that foreign goods were inferior.

It's true there are inconveniences in Japanese life, but they are generally very predictable. What the Japanese hate is unpredictable inconveniences.

[red-iron-pine]

they are predictable because they grew up in japan.

they just xenophobic -- literally the fear of the unknown.

[throwaway33381]

No they're not stop making things up. Most Japanese people and families cannot afford to travel. Wages in japan have not risen since the 90s and have actually gone down with inflation.

https://nbakki.hatenablog.com/entry/Changes_Wage-Workers_Sal...

[_blz2]

ironically saying Japanese are xenophobic is xenophobic