I live fairly adjacent within a couple km of a nationalist organization ' s camp garage and vehicle storage . They ' ve come around the town a few times decrying foreign influence on Japanese culture . Most of it is hilariously silly , like saying that foreigners should leave Japanese schools and Japan has always had the best schools etc . And that the Japanese have always had military superiority over neighboring countries and so the JSDF should be fully militarizedarmed again . The group is small but vocal . Noone I work with or interact with regularly has ever expressed those sentiments to me . Most people complain about the noise and the general idiocy of the situation , just like around elections , and when the weather is nice and the bosuzoku are revving up and down the local roads and terrorizing children and livestock . But the idea that foreigners can completely integrate is still not true . Whenever I tell my coworkers I ' m heading out with a group of friends , they ' ll always assume the group is entirely foreigners . Both relationships I ' ve had here shocked people I talked to when they turned out to be Japanese instead of foreigners as well . And there are always assumptions that I ' m getting married so I can live in Japan permanently , or that she wants to marry me to move to the US etc . The whole culturerace ingroup , outgroup is always pretty well apparent . But then again , as a Westerner I ' m treated much better than some of the other foreigners who live around my town Pakistani and Indian expats who live and work around the area . Same with some of my black colleagues . Part of the discrimination that I face is legal barriers put in place by the representatives of people who one the whole don ' t share those sentiments . But there are casual racists like people who will talk about that foreigner on the train right next to said foreigner in a language everybody understands or a few that are outright ultranationalist and xenophobic . But it ' s a very small contingent in a society that just starting to experience diversity .