anime + sushi + jav
Japan is a good place to go to but bad to live in. The work environment is so fucked compared to other first world countries. I would love to go to japan for like 3 months and just exist, but you could not find me a job that is better to do in Japan than jn other first world contries.
Like, it isn't even close to how bad it would be to live in a 3rd world country as an average citizen, but for modern standards living in Japan would be undesirable. Japan is #51 in happiness score, for referance: Brazil is #44, the US is #23, Canada is #15, and the top 3 are Iceland, Denmark, and Finland.
Is Japan a cool country? For sure. Is Japan the best? Definitely not. Maybe if you're a weeb'd up val man child with an asian fetish you'd be able to get over the downsides, but for me the glorious trains and infustructure isn't enough.
It's not a bad place to live in. This rhetoric is only repeated by failed expats and ALTs. Work culture doesn't matter to 90% of the people that wants to live in Japan. Not everyone coming to Japan has to work at a black collar company. Most of them come for IT related jobs and remote work.
Lazy English teachers on TikTok really convinced people that Japan is a terrible place to live in lol.