| 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". |