I spend half of my time in Tokyo and have a different opinion of the Japanese. Firstly any subway train has a special car painted pink that is only for women. Why? Because the men grope the girls in packed trains. Not only is it incredibly disrespectful its oh-so-5th-grade. Can one imagine in NYC that they would have to install a special subway car so the salarymen don’t cop quick feels on the way to work?
More pointedly the Japanese women don’t want to marry Japanese men: 1 out of every 6 marriages in Tokyo is between a Japanese woman and a foreign man, nationally the ratio is 1/10.
There is also this sense of “where did it go” when it comes to Japanese culture: the only unkempt buildings in Japan are the temples of Kyoto. Nobody is interested enough to give them a coat of paint.
Its a fully colonialized population, a culture eviserated by the American occupation and a distain for things Japanese. A culture where Japanese men are viewed as second-rate to foreigners: read Euro or American,
