How do the Japanese people act towards foreigners?

Question

Is thier hostiity or peace? Love or hate? Right or wrong?

Answer 1

There is no simple answer to this. I have been in Japan for 6 years and in that time I have encountered many different reactions. In general, people are friendly, curious, and often mis-informed. If you live in the country a long time then it is the ignorance and parochial nature of the people that gets most wearing. But I remember than my countrymen are just as ignorant about people from Japan.
Many people make a good living from simply being a foreigner abeit one that can speak Japanese fluently and present a different point of view, for example, news programs often have a foreign analyst or TV show have a token foreign "tarento", a personality.
There is, however, a marked difference in how people respond to asian peoples compared to westerners. It would be probably best that people from China or Korea described their experiences first-hand rather than I describe second-hand tales.
Recently, there is a trend in more assertive (read hawkish-right wing) politics. One prime example is Tokyo's governor Ishihara, see link below. This centers on Sino-Korean-Japanese relations, the issue is historical (WWII, comfort women, Nanjing) but also economic and political (China's greater economic power, oil/gas reserves, fishing rights).
In short, I would say people don't know lot about foreigners other than a superficial knowledge, and people are curious about us (and also curious about what we think of them).

Answer 2

reckoning on the way you verify out it, it particularly is a benefit or a difficulty concerning gaining understanding of jap. the ease would be that jap tend to anticipate Asian-looking human beings to talk jap, and subsequently won't dumb down their way of conversing to you. they're going to talk over with you extra for sure than another foreigners would anticipate. which could particularly strengthen your language acquirement. on the different hand, in case you're no longer arranged to maintain up the p.c.., you will ask your self why your different distant places acquaintances get a wreck, yet you're able to try so no longer common at gaining understanding of jap. regrettably some jap have a destructive image in the direction of Filipinos, so if it is your look, then some human beings would look down on you. there are distinctive Filipinas in Japan working in the intercourse commerce, and a large variety of jap affiliate Filipinas with that. i've got met human beings in Japan from Myanmar, Cambodia, and Bangladesh. all of them have been particularly large human beings and that they've been quite properly-respected, the two by different foreigners and by jap. besides, take each and every thing with a grain of salt, consisting of what I say.

Answer 3

Most japanese do not bear grudges with foreigners.
It's only when foreigners do something out of the japanese culture norms, that they may laugh at you or repirmand you.
They will be very patient with you if you attempt to speak to them in their native tongue, in fact.

Answer 4

Curious is more like it. They are very homogeneous people. (meaning everybody look about the same) Anything that falls outside of their "usual" is an object of curiousity.

Keep in mind, most Japanese people do not have the concept of "personal space," so they tend to get too close physically by American standard.

Answer 5

How come it seems like most pple who had contact with them think they are hypocrites. I personally think so too, very, on-the-surface type of people.

Answer 6

All I've seen and heard is good. They are friendly and polite to almost everyone.

Answer 7

i had a jap flat mate for a year,he stayed in his room and studyed all day and night long,came out to watch cartoons on t.v i had to remind him we won the war,and that the japs bombed sydney back in 1942.just found a midget sub off sydney the other day,made in japan !!! forgive and forget,until the next war...

Answer 8

They are way to friendly. You will always see a smile on there face. however when you leave they could be talking mad **** on you, but to your face they are too nice.