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Far be it from me to argue with an actual resident, but I didn’t really feel like the Japanese were particularly disingenuous when I visited. Tokyo isn’t to dissimilar to any other multicultural major city in a first world country. Strangers are generally apathetic to people around them unless they’re a nuisance. The one thing that really stood out was service culture. Service workers in Japan are miles ahead of people in similar jobs in any other country. They’re incredibly accommodating and approachable.Japan is great for tourists. Most people are polite and helpful. Try to speak Japanese and they'll take pity on you. If you need directions ask a random stranger and if they don't give you directions they'll walk you there.
It's when you live there for a while that you start to notice that the smiles are forced, that preserving the every ready "wa" or harmony is one of the biggest things they want and if you ever run into a drunken salaryman on the last train there's a good chance he'll start yelling at you for no reason because you're "poisoning his country".
It's reasons like this that I want Chibi to go there and slowly have him realize Glorious Nippon isn't so glorious.
When i visited Hiroshima and especially Osaka, people were extremely welcoming. I felt genuinely welcomed by locals and expats and I had a really easy time mingling and finding people to hang out with. I was in Hiroshima on peace day so the crowd was pretty mixed with people all over the world. I imagine that fukuoka has a pretty similar crowd to Osaka, but I didn’t get the chance to go quite that far.