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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do understand that when OP says "Americans", they are referring to White people. Blacks and other people, need not apply because they are not welcome in Japan. [/quote]

Why do you think it's so safe?[/quote]
It’s safe because there is equality/equity. They never forced a bunch of people into their country to become slaves. They never stole their land from other people. They are a more egalitarian society. That’s why it’s safer. [/quote]

It is safe because “the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.”  They hang people for capital crimes; the prisoner is in their cell and one day without advance notice gets the word that today is their day. After a brief opportunity to ready themselves they take the drop and that’s that. It historically is an extremely hierarchical and structured society, and anything but egalitarian.  It had a legal caste system until the mid 1800’s and even today people from the historically “untouchable” class face discrimination in employment and elsewhere. Corporal punishment in schools is unlawful but students are smacked around every day at school and at home. Domestic violence went largely unrecognized by Japanese society and unaddressed by the Japanese government until the early 1990s.  Even today men abuse their wives without consequence, in no small part because Japan is a shame-based culture where maintaining appearances is everything.  And before you canonize the Japanese for their alleged non-history of slavery, you might check with the “comfort women” and the folks in Nanking.

I love Japanese culture. I’ve enjoyed traveling to Japan. But Japan is anything but some romantic utopia, particularly for non-Japanese. [/quote]

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