Sweep,
I've never really felt uncomfortable in Japan. I've encounter some bigotry but the Japanese tend to be more racist against other asians than white or black people. Iranians have an especially bad reputation here. I got a lot more sh!t from blacks and Puerto Ricans when I lived in NY than I get in Japan. Occasionally I've had drunks yell "You're in Japan, speak Japanese." One time In Osaka a guy wouldn't let me check into a hotel room with an Asian American girl. He claimed there were no rooms even though the sign out front said there were. The really annoying part was we weren't even a couple. Why the hell else would I have asked for a room with two beds. At that time my Japanese wasn't good enough to argue with him though.
hounddog,
I should have mentioned that much of that crap I ate was shared with a 6'8" 300 lbs English guy.
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