People in Japan are burnt out on following COVID protocols, so the government has mostly given up on trying at this point outside of token measures. HOWEVER, if COVID cases start rising after they reopen the borders to tourists (to allow people to take advantage of their weakened currency to go on tourist spending sprees and bring in billions of dollars in desperately-needed revenue), the same citizens that will say "oh well, nothing to be done, COVID is here to stay" will then raise absolute fucking pandemonium if COVID cases rise even mildly after the borders open, because dirty foreigners "brought" the disease into the country.
Japanese xenophobia is fucking wild. It's stuck in the 1950s with how harebrained and brazen it is. You watch any YouTuber of note that moved to Japan, and every time housing discrimination, people ignoring them even when they speak Japanese, or general refusal of service comes up, they all get real clammy and dismissive about it, but it's obviously a huge problem.
Japanese xenophobia is fucking wild. It’s stuck in the 1950s with how harebrained and brazen it is. You watch any YouTuber of note that moved to Japan, and every time housing discrimination, people ignoring them even when they speak Japanese, or general refusal of service comes up, they all get real clammy and dismissive about it, but it’s obviously a huge problem.
Japanese media empire is terrifying, like they genuinely had the whole world brainwashed to view them as this heaven on earth. I mean America also have a massive media empire, yet most pro-America VOA types still occasionally jokes about Americans being fat, uncultured, and trigger happy.
People in Japan are burnt out on following COVID protocols, so the government has mostly given up on trying at this point outside of token measures. HOWEVER, if COVID cases start rising after they reopen the borders to tourists (to allow people to take advantage of their weakened currency to go on tourist spending sprees and bring in billions of dollars in desperately-needed revenue), the same citizens that will say "oh well, nothing to be done, COVID is here to stay" will then raise absolute fucking pandemonium if COVID cases rise even mildly after the borders open, because dirty foreigners "brought" the disease into the country.
Japanese xenophobia is fucking wild. It's stuck in the 1950s with how harebrained and brazen it is. You watch any YouTuber of note that moved to Japan, and every time housing discrimination, people ignoring them even when they speak Japanese, or general refusal of service comes up, they all get real clammy and dismissive about it, but it's obviously a huge problem.
Japanese media empire is terrifying, like they genuinely had the whole world brainwashed to view them as this heaven on earth. I mean America also have a massive media empire, yet most pro-America VOA types still occasionally jokes about Americans being fat, uncultured, and trigger happy.