I’m 0% Japanese and can say that so far, aside from some annoying paperwork, it’s a bliss compared to the countries I used to live in before. Maybe the difference is that I didn’t expect people to truly love me behind their smiles and politeness. Just being friendly (as it is in 99% of cases here for me) is enough, and way above my experience in Europe when people jumped to being rude and sometimes hostile right after hearing my accent after trying to speak local language.
I’m 0% Japanese and can say that so far, aside from some annoying paperwork, it’s a bliss compared to the countries I used to live in before. Maybe the difference is that I didn’t expect people to truly love me behind their smiles and politeness. Just being friendly (as it is in 99% of cases here for me) is enough, and way above my experience in Europe when people jumped to being rude and sometimes hostile right after hearing my accent after trying to speak local language.