[mustang-med]

I couldn't disagree with this more, and I am quite disappointed that this has made the front page of HN. If you're any person of color (brown, black), you're not treated very well in Japan. I've had at least six friends go there over the last two decades to find this out. Actually, Japan is where dreams go to die. New grads join one company after graduating college and have to stay with it for decades. A few years ago, their medical education system was implicated in changing answers for high-scoring female students so they wouldn't attain a seat. Anecdotally, all of my wife's friends who have transferred to Google Japan have seen their careers stagnate, and they have had to return to Silicon Valley. Finally, because of the 'Lost Decade,' the country was in a recession from 1991 to 2010..while they might have xenophobia on the menu, they have more pressing issues to address to become an actual functioning and healthy democracy

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Anecdotally, I've not had any issues whilst (I think) fitting into the American PoC category.

It's not perfect, but I think it's _very_ hard to argue that it's worse than the average European country.

I don't think Americans realize how xenophobic most of Europe is.

[ranger_danger]

I think Japan is going to have another economical crisis mainly due to immigration.

Crime is going to rise considerably and Japanese people will feel like Japan is becoming less "Japan" whether that's culturally or racially. I already feel that myself every time I visit, I think it is slowly getting worse.