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I suppose, but a lot of the online discussion around it tends to come from people who taught English or something in Japan for a year and barely speak Japanese. How accepted could you possibly feel in a society under those circumstances?
I think you get a much different story from people who've been making a life and career in Japan. Obviously there are still problems but it doesn't get to the level of "everyone in the country is xenophobic".
This is a discussion about how they treat outsiders not how they treat people that spent years becoming part of their society. Also guess which country has one of the toughest immigration policies on earth?
Lots of them? Like the US, or Canada perhaps? Japan is ridiculously easy to move to if you have a college degree. As long as you can maintain some sort of job they'll just keep approving your visa. And if you get married to a local it's way easier than say a US citizen trying to get a green card for your spouse from the states.
And by outsiders you meant tourists outside of tourist areas? I guess there would be people who'd be uncomfortable about interacting with foreigners they can't communicate with, but if I try to imagine a similar scenario in the states it seems just as likely to have the same outcome. Someone in a hick town walking into a diner and speaking broken English isn't much more likely to be welcomed with open arms, so I guess we should say Americans hate any and all outsiders?
Even when I was traveling when my Japanese was shit I didn't experience any of what you're talking about. There's still definitely issues with black racism, but again, that's pretty true in the US as well, no?
I seem to have touched a nerve. I'll let you sit in your echo chamber and believe what you want. Good day.
I just think you don't really know shit about japan