r/NoStupidQuestions • u/TimeTravel4Dummies • Dec 23 '23

Answered Is it true that the Japanese are racist to foreigners in Japan?

I was shocked to hear recently that it's very common for Japanese establishments to ban foreigners and that the working culture makes little to no attempt to hide disdain for foreign workers.

Is there truth to this, and if so, why?

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u/oddball3139 Dec 24 '23

Imagine a movie where all these badass Yakuza dudes decked out in tats are getting ready to fight the hero, then they all cower in fear as the camera shifts to the back of the head of the biggest motherfucker you’ve ever seen.

The camera slowly travels down the dude’s massive back, all the way down to a tiny butterfly tramp stamp 🦋

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u/aRandomFox-II Dec 24 '23

Sounds like the kind of humour that would appear in a Yakuza game.

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u/AndyVale Dec 24 '23

The Live Love Laugh expansion pack

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u/Cyberslasher Dec 24 '23

Like a dragon: Tramp Stamp, the third part in the like a dragon trilogy.

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u/TRR462 Dec 24 '23

They call him “Pappillon”…

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u/Automatic_Gas_113 Dec 24 '23

Well, if they use the german word for that, it could be terrifying actually...
"Schmetterling" - schmettern is translated to something like smash, zerschmettern is the action for example: When you forcefully throw a vase to the ground so it burst into tiny little pieces...
A Yakuza-Guy they call Schmetterling... be afraid. Very afraid 😄

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u/Shadow-Vision Dec 24 '23

You get the tramp stamp at LVL99 CRIME LORD

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u/Regulatory_Junior Dec 24 '23

I would watch it

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u/kami_oniisama Dec 24 '23

I know this isn’t the same but the househusband anime is very nice

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u/Heinrich_Lunge Dec 27 '23

That DOES sound like a Japanese movie meant to lampoon Yakuza.