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Topic	Anybody been to Tokyo? Is it easy to get around not knowing Japanese?
darkknight109 09/16/19 9:25:28 AM #30:	green dragon posted... Isn't japan extremely horrible to black people? I've always wanted to go, but I heard they treated black people extremely poorly. I have a black colleague who went to Japan, and he didn't seem to be treated any differently than any other foreigner. Keep in mind that most "racism" you see in Japan is of the, "Wow, you can speak three words of Japanese? That's amazing!" variety, where you're fawned over for extremely basic things. The Western "have someone toss a beer bottle at your head while screaming racial slurs" isn't really a thing over there. scigeek101 posted... And JR rakes in loads of cash from clueless tourists because they'll all buy the JR pass without checking to see what the prices actually are beyond this vague sense of "super expensive" They ain't cheap but neither is the JR pass. Depends how much travelling you're doing. When I went, I got the comprehensive pass for one week. I think it was ~29,000 yen, but I used it to buy over 60,000 yen worth of tickets, as I was taking a lot of day trips and moving around the country quite a lot. It's not worth it if you're only taking the shinkansen once or twice, but beyond that they start to get cost effective very quickly (especially if you get the regional passes rather than the nationwide one). mooreandrew58 posted... I think they look down on mixed people living there They don't really "look down" on people, so much as automatically assume anyone who isn't ethnic Japanese isn't from there (not without reason - last census I saw had ~97% of the country being ethnic Japanese). Hell, I even fell prey to this while I was there - saw a group of four white and black guys during a visit to Hirosaki Castle. I made some small talk and asked them where they were from, naturally assuming they were tourists like me. I failed to completely hide my surprise when they answered "Yamagata". --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! <cite>darkknight109 posted [p:927510058] in Anybody be... [t:78013974]...</cite> <quote>green dragon posted...</cite> <quote>Isn't japan extremely horrible to black people? I've always wanted to go, but I heard they treated black people extremely poorly.</quote> I have a black colleague who went to Japan, and he didn't seem to be treated any differently than any other foreigner. Keep in mind that most "racism" you see in Japan is of the, "Wow, you can speak three words of Japanese? That's amazing!" variety, where you're fawned over for extremely basic things. The Western "have someone toss a beer bottle at your head while screaming racial slurs" isn't really a thing over there. scigeek101 posted...</cite> <quote>And JR rakes in loads of cash from clueless tourists because they'll all buy the JR pass without checking to see what the prices actually are beyond this vague sense of "super expensive" They ain't cheap but neither is the JR pass. </quote> Depends how much travelling you're doing. When I went, I got the comprehensive pass for one week. I think it was ~29,000 yen, but I used it to buy over 60,000 yen worth of tickets, as I was taking a lot of day trips and moving around the country quite a lot. It's not worth it if you're only taking the shinkansen once or twice, but beyond that they start to get cost effective very quickly (especially if you get the regional passes rather than the nationwide one). mooreandrew58 posted...</cite> <quote>I think they look down on mixed people living there</quote> They don't really "look down" on people, so much as automatically assume anyone who isn't ethnic Japanese isn't from there (not without reason - last census I saw had ~97% of the country being ethnic Japanese). Hell, I even fell prey to this while I was there - saw a group of four white and black guys during a visit to Hirosaki Castle. I made some small talk and asked them where they were from, naturally assuming they were tourists like me. I failed to completely hide my surprise when they answered "Yamagata". --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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