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 It is an extremely common issue to hear, particularly lately, about how Japan has a rise in anti-foreigner sentiment. I think it is important to view it in the perspective of Japanese people, and I refer you to the following videos on this topic:
+  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNHR9lnGS3A|Golden Rule of Japanese Society]]
   * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKPS8gNk7A|On the Rise of Anti-Foreigner Sentiment in Japan]]
   * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WpkQTtHUyg|On Overtourism in Japan and the Country's New Leaders]]
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 The fact of the matter is that Japanese law has always had loopholes, but they were rarely exploited. Now, they are. This has led to a rise in scrutiny of these laws to fix loopholes and ensure that there aren't any gaps in the legislation.
-Again, the intent was always that one of Japan's hundreds of thousands of administrative scriveners or lawyers would parse the law, and that these people would be ethical.
+Again, the intent was always that one of Japan's hundreds of thousands of administrative scriveners or lawyers would parse the law, and that these people would be ethical. Now, amateurs read the law and also apply. LLMs help this. The result? Now stricter laws are required. Foreigners who previously exploited loopholes are admonished, unsurprisingly.
+"You should have known the rules" even when those rules even when the rules were never written down.