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Concrete buildings and the lack of urban planning
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Lack of respect of nature (concrete all along the coast, hills, few parks in cities, etc.)
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Non-buried electric lines everywhere
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Lack of thermic isolation and central heating in houses
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5-month-long muggy summers (except Hokkaido and Tohoku)
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Natural disasters (earthquakes, typhoons...)
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Lack of preservation of the historical heritage
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Political corruption (amakudari system, government using postal savings...)
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Police checks on non Japanese (e.g. gaikokujin torokusho)
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People pointing or staring at foreigners, or saying "gaijin, gaijin !" or "Hello America !"
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People telling you that gaijin come to Japan to make money, when salaries are higher in your country
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Assumptions that foreigners in Japan commit much more crimes than the Japanese
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Assumptions that almost all foreigners living in Japan cannot speak Japanese
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Remarks inspired by jingoism (4 seasons, farmer vs hunter, etc.)
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Ignorance about the rest of the world (cultures, geography, history...)
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General denial or downplaying of war atrocities
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Discrimination in general (toward women, young people, foreigners, burakumin...)
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The education system (school + juku + homeworks and they still do not learn anything)
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The exceptional Japanese ability to copy what China or the West did/does
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Other (please specify)
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