[KennyBlanken]

> People underweight how amazing it is to be able to pay less than $50k for the equivalent of a golden visa to a top 5 GDP nation that is well regarded, safe, has some opportunity and is generally easy to live in.

The Japanese are incredibly racist and xenophobic. Numerous businesses outright place signs barring foreigners (particularly russians, chinese, etc)

Japanese citizens are almost always completely trusted by police over anyone, say, white or black. So Japanese who want to fuck with someone will bait them into a confrontation (or just outright lie) so they're arrested - and Japan has a nearly 100% conviction rate, with the worst prison conditions in the developed world.

[franciscop]

Some of those assertions are true, some half true, and some are twisting the truth so much that I'd like to note (been living here for 7+ years):

- The Japanese are incredibly racist and xenophobic

Half true, some Japanese are those, but not all and "incredibly" is stretching it a lot (also, it's not good to generalize a negative trait to a whole country, I wonder what that's called). There's also famously a lot of "positive racism" towards Westerners.

- Numerous businesses outright place signs barring foreigners

There's been a handful of places in a country with 120M people, and each and every one of those has made the news, exactly because of how rare they are!

- Japanese citizens are almost always completely trusted by police over anyone, say, white or black.

Sure, this is true.

- So Japanese who want to fuck with someone will bait them into a confrontation (or just outright lie) so they're arrested.

While I don't have any number against it, this feels like such an incredibly bizarre event that I'd like to ask for some sources since it sounds very unbelievable given my personal experiences.

- Japan has a nearly 100% conviction rate

Absolutely not true in that this statement is grossly misconstruing a narrative of "arrested => 100% convicted". ONCE the police decide to pursue a matter, then it's true, but they only do so with incredibly strong evidence. See wikipedias' notes: "If measured in the same way, the United States' federal conviction rate would be 99.8%." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#Japan

- With the worst prison conditions in the developed world

Fairly true, if we consider only the handful of countries that can be called "the developed world".

[wk_end]

This is heavily tilted.

The Japanese conviction rate is high, but this is largely in part because the authorities are extremely reluctant to try cases unless they have a slam-dunk case. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_justice_system_of_Jap...

  Scholars say the biggest reason for Japan's very high conviction rate is the 
  country's low prosecution rate and the way Japan calculates its conviction rate 
  is different from other countries. According to them, Japanese 
  prosecutors only pursue cases that are likely to result in convictions, and not 
  many others. According to Professor Ryo Ogiso of Chuo University, 
  prosecutors defer prosecution in 60% of the cases they receive, and conclude the 
  remaining 30% or so of cases in summary trials. This summary trial is a trial 
  procedure in which cases involving a fine of 1,000,000 yen or less are examined 
  on the basis of documents submitted by the public prosecutor without a formal 
  trial if there is no objection from the suspect. Only about 8% of cases are 
  actually prosecuted, and this low prosecution rate is the reason for Japan's 
  high conviction rate.

Also worth noting that, when evaluated equally, the US justice system has a similarly high rate:

  According to Bruce Aronson of New York University School of Law, Japan's conviction rate is
  misleading because it is the rate at which defendants admit guilt in the cases they are
  charged with. According to him, if the method of calculating the conviction rate in Japan is
  applied to the United States, the conviction rate of federal defendants in the United States
  in 2018 was also over 99%. According to him, when there is a discussion about Japan, it
  is easy to misunderstand because people quickly rely on broad cultural generalizations and
  stereotypes.

None of which is to say that there aren't serious problems with the Japanese justice system (or the US one, for that matter).

[therein]

I am glad they prioritize and look out for their own. That's how it should be. Not everywhere needs to be in love with globalism. And yes, I would say the same should be the case in other places as well.