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It's been mentioned, but this is just a horrible title for the article. Bottom line: Japanese pubs for locals are struggling, because the locals themselves spend less time and money there —¹ for completely sensible reasons. Yea, they didn't pivot to catering to foreigners to save their businesses, but there is no mention of xenophobia being the reason. Guess we've gotta ragebait somehow 🤷.
¹ This dash has been manually added by a free-range, grass-fed human, using Android's little known "long press the minus"-technology.²
² You can long press the digits too.
Oh yeah man, it's absurd. A lot of Asian countries have tried incredibly hard to shield the world from seeing how xenophobic and racist they are. As a black man who lived in China for 5 years, I had way way more openly racist comments and actions towards me than in the US. Like more the first month in China than in the other 40 years in the US. Japan is better, but still pretty bad. They're just more quiet/restrained about it typically.
That's something that always bugs me, the rest of the world always tries to shame the US for racism and other related things like they've solved a problem. They have, it's just having 90%+ the same race/skin color of people. Hell China is committing a genocide right now against the Uyghurs because they're Muslim and look more middle eastern. All while the evil US takes in more legal immigrants than the 2nd. 3rd, 4th, and 5th countries combined. The US definitely isn't perfect by any stretch, but it isn't even close to as bad as everyone likes to act like it is, get captain dip shit out of the presidency and you've already made a huge improvement.
America as per normal with most things compared to the east. We are but casual normies but China is competitive ranked racism!