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Of the roughly 20 countries I’ve been to, Japan is probably the most set up to accommodate people who don’t speak the local language.
I completely disagree with this (& the rest of that paragraph). I went to Japan last year, and aside from hotels, and fast food chains in major tourist area's, the English was terrible (not that I have anything against that). I also never had anyone speaking back to me in English if I attempted speaking (very broken) Japanese to them first. Even when we were having difficulty understanding each other, they still used Japanese, and I look typically European so I clearly looked foreign too. The internet made me have very different expectations.
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