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I wasn’t in Japan for long – only five days – but it was enough to appreciate the essence of the place. The country, as I had expected to discover, is a marvel; remarkable, thrilling, inspiring and blessed with so many natural advantages that it leaves one feeling furiously envious. The people I met were beautiful and ultra-civilised – if also slightly robotic. The climate was milder than I expected (having previously visited unbearably humid South Korea). The natural environment (and especially the trees) I found dazzlingly attractive. And though I am not a ‘weeaboo’ by any stretch of the imagination, I did come away with a newfound appreciation for manga and J-Pop (especially the bizarre girl-group AKB48 – seriously look them up).
I have, of course, always understood the Western fetish for East Asia and for Japan in particular. The appeal of homogenous, orderly and affluent societies to those stranded in multiculturalised urban jungles is perfectly obvious. Japan is a dream of faultlessness; a magical perfectionland, where the girls are thin and pretty, the IQs are through the roof and crime and disorder are almost entirely absent. Who could fail to be attracted to that?
It is revealing that many of the leading luminaries of the Western far-right have had personal experience of Japan. The current leader of the white nationalist British National Party (BNP) Adam Walker, for example, spent many years there teaching English to children. Jared Taylor, leader of the neo-segregationist website American Renaissance, also spent many years living in the country and speaks the language fluently. This makes a lot of sense to me.
A Western citizen exposed to Japan for a considerable period of time will inevitably come to resent the fact that his or her own country has gone down such a different, self-destructive path. Why can’t England be like Japan? Why can’t London be like Tokyo? Exposure to Japan can by itself turn a liberal into a reactionary.
Of course, there is no new shift in policy available to us that can make England into Japan or London into Tokyo, and any effort to bring such changes about will be a failure (and a bloody one at that). This is because Japan has dodged the bullet of decline for reasons that are inherently Japanese.
First, Japan has always been insular. Indeed, prior to the Meiji restoration, Japan maintained the strictest policy of cultural isolation in human history, even at times forbidding its citizenry the right to leave the archipelago on pain of death. Second, Japanese people are, on average, smarter than Europeans by two to three IQ points. This is not an insignificant difference and it has real-world consequences. Finally, Japanese men have lower levels of testosterone than Europeans, meaning that libertinism, crimes of aggression (and increasingly even reproduction) are much rarer there than in other parts of the world.
Given that Europeans cannot become Japanese simply by changing national policy, those who (like Jared Taylor and Adam Walker) dream of importing Japanese advantages into the West are sadly deluded. The best we can do is envy them quietly and try not to get too depressed.
D, LDN
Defend the Modern World 
I personally don’t think the wests current plight has something to do with the iq of white people (though I absolutely agree that iq is very important and that people need to understand it’s ramifications for broader society). Which is to say, I don’t think that if our iqs were two-three points higher, we might have avoided mass immigration. Number one, it’s middle class whites (iq correlates strongly with income, for obvious reasons) that, at least in my experience, have the staunchist support for multiculturalism, and lower income whites who are increasingly rallying against it. There’s also the consideration that white people have had contact with people of different backgrounds for thousands of years. It’s only in the last fifty did we suddenly decide not to care about our future.
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True, although the grassroots Left (the agitators and ‘anti-fascists’) are disproportionately drawn from the lower end of the intelligence scale. It all comes down to how easy a population is to dupe. In a democracy, the middle class are often outvoted.
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It is great you have had a few days in Japan, even if it was only brief.
The real problem is not so much the money, though eventually that will pull you up short, but just making the time to get away.
I have meet many young Japanese back packers, and always found that they were always happy to pitch in, particularly the girls and end up with dirt under their fingernails, if not all over.
They do compensate for that with long showers 🙂 and special spray deodorants .for different occasions.
Although price of houses/apartments may seem expensive in a Japanese city, the rural areas have been depopulating, so places there are much cheaper.
Have you considered such things as “couch surfing”? There are other schemes to help keep costs down and meet people of that area.
As always I enjoy your writings, and how you can cut through waffle and present a good point of view.
A quiet follower.
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Thank you.
I would love to have spent a longer time in Japan. Unfortunately, it is, as you note, quite expensive. Korea is much cheaper, but Japan is so much more interesting.
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Japan is not perfect. No place inhabited by human beings is. You *do* know about the yakuza? And just have a good long think about Aokigahara, the Forest of Death; which is where many Japanese who have decided to end it all go to commit suicide, at a rate of about 30 a year; except that in 2003, they found 105 bodies in the forest. In 2010, it was estimated that more than 200 people had *attempted* suicide there, of whom 54 had succeeded.
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Yes, there is a problem with shame-culture in Japan. A lot of it stems from high expectations. I feel very sorry for the children who commit suicide after failing tests at school.
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David:
Thank you for your amazing website. I really enjoy your essays.
I recently was a first-time visitor to Japan, and the experience left my wife and me in disbelief at the overall dignity and cultural refinement that defines Japan. When you are in Japan, free from the vulgarities, social stresses, and basic trash that Islam and third world immigration have gifted to the West, you can actually feel your mindset change as you re-learn how to breath again and relax. Today, maybe only Iceland or New Zealand are such comparable places? I traveled in Scandinavia in the mid-1970s, and that was the last time I experienced the peace and safety(especially for women) that more or less comes with Western cultural homogeneity. For Nordic countries, that world is long gone now. Who asked for that to happen?
One specific thing I’ll mention about Japan is how clean it is and free from rubbish. Compare that to Muslim cities like Cairo or muslim parts of Jerusalem, or the rivers of garbage/feces that migrant Muslims have left in their wake when they enter Europe, and you will appreciate that culture is indeed the most powerful determinant in the world- 100 times more powerful than economics. Many Germans, and Eurocrats, think that their new Muslim immigrants will inject vitality and growth into the aging Euro workforce and provide the means to support the welfare state. They will learn how wrong they were, very painfully so, over the next 20 years.
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Thank you for the kind words.
Yes, I imagine New Zealand and Iceland are quite similar in some respects. Both are very safe and civilised.
I also noticed the lack of rubbish on the streets. I actually felt quite ashamed to be from the UK. We have a very ugly country by comparison.
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