What other dangers do they have to worry about? My daughter wants to go there.
Attack by China (probably mostly confined to areas uninhabited by 99% of Japanese people, i.e. remote islands)
Natural disasters (like the quake/tsunami some years back)
LOW BIRTH RATE
Japan is a super great place, extremely safe, but the above dangers do remain.
Even late at night in a big city, among really drunk Japanese people it is often very safe (but then I’m huge, powerful, and look a little scary, anyway).
If you want to go for a visit of some weeks, then go in mid Spring or early Summer:
Japan gets very hot and muggy in mid-summer...actually most of summer.
She’ll want to visit:
Kyoto
Kamakura
Hakone
Tokyo
Nikko
Kobe
>> What other dangers do they have to worry about? <<
Ten dangers of Japan, in no particular order:
1. Raw fish in sushi and sashimi.
2. Mixed nude bathing at hot springs resorts.
3. “Pushers” at subway stations who, in their zeal to get everybody on board a train, may (unintentionally?) touch one’s private parts.
4. Wasabi (very hot horse radish) hidden in some food dishes — can cause injury to the sinuses.
5. Fugu fish — which, if not prepared properly, can kill you with poisonous toxins.
6. Massage girls who will walk on your back. Potentially dangerous if your daughter has a fragile spine or other back problems.
7. Small inns (ryokan) where you gotta sleep on the floor on a straw mat. Again, potentially dangerous if your daughter is prone to back problems.
8. The world’s worst desserts. Can spoil an otherwise nice meal.
9. Deceptively polite and deceptively agreeable people whose “yes” only means, “I’ll think about it.”
10. Traffic that runs on the wrong side of the street. Many tourists have been hit while crossing, because they instinctively look to the right rather than to the left.