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I just came back from a 2.5 week solo trip to Japan. I'm from America and have used public transit maybe 3 times in my life, I wrote down (but did not study) 5 Japanese words, and I put Google translate on the front page of my phone's home screen.

I never got on a wrong train, I used 1 of my 5 words and that one was optional, I never used Google translate for conversation, and only used the camera translate on things I was curious about, but it was not nessisary.

Japan is extremely easy to navigate and function in without knowing the language. As long as your in the cities and not in a middle of no where town, all signs have English subtitles, all machines have English, and Google maps tells you everything you need. For food you can get very far with pointing. At a resturant (sit down or fast food, as they always have menus on the table at the register), just point at what you want.