But I’m actually in Japan right now, and while I definitely did fetishize Japan to some extent this trip has not been pleasant.
Last night I went out for a call in front of my Airbnb so I wouldn’t wake up my baby that sleeping.
I spent 10 minutes with police because apparently I was suspicious. He asked me about my reason for being here my visa and all the other shit the much nicer border guards asked me. And because they were backwards retards he wrote it on a piece of paper instead of checking it on a computer. Giving him a Taiwan if that included my passport number was not enough I just had to go inside and wake the kid. BTW had I not been in front of my Airbnb, I wouldn't have been able to fetch my Passport and I would probably have been taken to the ward. Just for being a "suspicious person in the neighbourhood". That's like being a black person in the US except that you don't get beat up or shot.
The proof of rental wasn’t enough either and when I went inside he followed me without even asking which would be illegal in most civilized places. Yes he was polite and he didn’t yell at me but he was still a retarded racist PoS.
Mind you that police in Japan can and will put foreigners in prison in solitary for 14 days without charge for shoplifting just in case.
That said it’s a beautiful place that is very well designed(eg. high buildings next to busy roads protecting the residential areas behind from noise) compared to other places with similar demographics are complete structural unlivable monsters(Tehran for example).
But it’s not a place I would want to spend more than a two week honeymoon phase at.