Wthere are about 60,000 Muslims in Japan.
if you dress differently from the others your life becomes difficult. people are afraid of you and generally, don’t want to do business with you.
They’ll be very very polite about it, but they won’t probably won’t want to be your friend, would be extremely reluctant to rent an apartment to you or help you open a bank account, ecetera.
There will be robots planting rice in Japan or turning over hotel rooms before illegal aliens do that.
or any legal immigrants, either.
During the long period of national isolation when the Black Ships came to Japan from abroad the local people were told to shut their shutters and curtains and in every case to avoid even LOOKING at the foreign Black Ships.
The Western mind very closely associates xenophobia with Bad Manners; the mere idea of a polite xenophobe is extremely difficult to understand but that is absolutely the case in Japan.
“or any legal immigrants, either”
Things are somewhat changing for legal immigrants, Japan’s population is rapidly aging, at least skilled workers will have a place of some sort in Japan.
In talking with many younger Japanese, regardless of their perception about President Trump, many want to study and work in the US, Canada, etc.