Police is maybe only usefull for old ladies but I dont think I ever been in a country where it is more safe to walk the streets any time day or night.
Japanese oppinion of Pakistanis, Thai other non-Japanese and non-Europeans/North American is somewhere between their oppinion on rats and dogs. While they provide usefull work they are tolerated, if any sortof attack occurs in Japan and this status quo is disturbed results for these people will be very bad. Japan migh pull out of the coalition, unfortunately pacifism was deeply ingraned into them after ww2. But big chunk of foreigners will be deported very fast and nobody will cry about it.
US was a bit to successful in making japan a peacefull country. Iraq is the first foreign deployment of Japanese troops since ww2 who knows maybe pacifism can be undone with time.
fyi, get the 'l', 't', 'p' and 'space' buttons on your keyboard fixed! :-)
Nope. Ever since North Korea launched that missile *OVER* Japan, the Rising Sun has been re-arming and expanding her defense roles.
So long as North Korea is agressively Communistic, Japan will continue to move towards a war footing. Pacifism is dead in Japan.