Nope: it’s just a fact. Not foreigner’s fault but just something that just is. Japan is super strict about following rules/ manners etc. If you’re not born here, they obviously have no idea. Thus not their fault coz it’s impossible to know everything, but u also can’t blame Japanese for disliking them. (As a foreigner living in Japan, I’m not saying I agree with this. But this is the reality of Japan-they dislike people who are not from their country and thus act differently)-which is why I say it’s different from your western example: people can have same religion but different opinions-but foreigners are all born, as the world says, foreign. And because of this, I said I’m saddened people are acting exactly like the stereotype. *Also will delete my post in an hour coz this has veered away from OPs original post :/