Where do we start? Yes, there are many problems in general, and additional ones for outsiders, both about the cultural differences and the simple fact that you aren't japanese. Not that it means you'd 100% have a bad experience, that largely depends on what you like or not, the compromises you can accept or not, and largely on chance. Maybe your experience could be 100% positive, but for the average person it is quite far from the magical place given out by small depictions.
racism, your job is more important than you, a terrible prison system that the world usually doesn't get to see, declining birth rates effectively putting an expiration date on their global relevance.
Racism, high meat prices, kaiju attacks, getting hit by trucks and ending up as a magical girl in a fantasy setting before the invention of toilet paper, etc.
mercswar
God i miss having a cat.
TsubakiTragic
"What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms" - Kobayashi Issa
BIC777
Kitties posting up for some pets.
herejusttopointouterrors
so jealous of this man's life. sigh...
rubypilgrim
This is a good and worthwhile life.
NaughtButOne
modis
Perfect. They are all…perfect.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Mr Meowagi
ReallyOG
Damn that’s clever. +10
QueueTee
This needs more upvotes
freezingpilot
There are downsides to Japan right? Because everytime I see stuff posted about Japan, it seems like a magical place, like Narnia, or Norway.
AnOceanOfStars
Where do we start?
Yes, there are many problems in general, and additional ones for outsiders, both about the cultural differences and the simple fact that you aren't japanese.
Not that it means you'd 100% have a bad experience, that largely depends on what you like or not, the compromises you can accept or not, and largely on chance. Maybe your experience could be 100% positive, but for the average person it is quite far from the magical place given out by small depictions.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
If you aren't of Japanese decent, you'll never be fully accepted. But other than that, it looks pretty good.
IlluminaBlade
racism, your job is more important than you, a terrible prison system that the world usually doesn't get to see, declining birth rates effectively putting an expiration date on their global relevance.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
The declining birth rate is happening already in most places (Europe, the US, Canada, Japan, etc). It's why we need immigrants.
ButtscratchMcPherson
Racism, high meat prices, kaiju attacks, getting hit by trucks and ending up as a magical girl in a fantasy setting before the invention of toilet paper, etc.
reineseele
america with a functioning obama care ?
Ulgoroth
Still pretty sexist and overworker culture is definetly not cool.
Magnar1183
Seriously! They're even racist to native Japanese who have naturally brown skin! It's insane!
McMasterx
Be the Magical girl who invents the Bidet spell.
ButtscratchMcPherson
herejusttopointouterrors
there's no downside anywhere in the world if you're rich and white. rich, white, male? you rule the planet.
Zunderfeuer
Sry, in Japan you are as westerner the wrong kind of white
rshini
being white isn't that much of an advantage in Japan, ever heard of white monkey jobs?