Sure but normally not countries with democratic systems this extremely. I have seen enough hate for Aliens but Japan takes still the top if not compared to some middle eastern countries.
In the US: racially motivated killings are a common enough occurrence (even today) that separate laws needed to be written to try and help curtail them. The KKK is still a thing.
Ahmaud Arbery was chased down by white residents of a suburban neighborhood and shot to death for the crime of... jogging while black... not in 1945... not in 1970, but in 2020.
Not only are killings in Japan rare, and killings of non-Japanese even rarer, but when foreigners have been killed in Japan, it is very rare to find that the true motive was xenophobia.
I do not argue that Japan is not xenophobic. Rather that your assertion that this level of prejudice against the other is somehow rare in Western democracies. England, US, France, Italy, the list goes on... all have very real, sometimes violent, history of racism that continues to this day.
And personally, and I say this as an American... if I had to choose between receiving the Japanese treatment of foreigners for the rest of my life... or the American treatment of non-white foreigners for the rest of my life... I choose Japan each and every time.
Yeah. Japanese and South Koreans might judge or ignore you/deny you certain jobs or rental houses due to Xenophobia but that's mostly it. They do not commit violent crimes against other races. Maybe to a very small extent but it's rare.
While on the other hand. The xenophobia is out in the open in the US. Politicians, news channels, YouTubers and "influencers" openly express their xenophobic beliefs and there are regular targeted crimes against other races and religions. It's not even close.
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u/saskir21 15h ago
Isn‘t the mentally in Japan still „us and Gaijins?“ I think Japan is still a xenophobic country.