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What do the Japanese think about foreigner tourists who cannot speak any Japanese in Japan?

I'll answer this anecdotally.Two non-Japanese, Japanese language fluent friends of mine and I went skiing in Niigata together. At one point we were in a shuttle bus between resorts, just us, a Japanese passenger, and of course the driver who was also Japanese.The Japanese passenger said to the driver, “Fucking foreigners don't learn Japanese.” I immediately replied in Japanese, “Actually, I completely agree with you. Anyone who lives in this country should learn Japanese. They're stupid if they don't.”Of course he was surprised. He asked, “Which of you speaks Japanese best?”While I pointed to my friend who actually majored in Japanese, both of them pointed at me, who learned Japanese mostly while drinking.He was embarrassed, so I continued.“Of course foreign tourists don't have to speak Japanese, but they should at least know ‘please,’ ‘thank you,’ ‘excuse me,’ and ‘nice to meet you.’ To say you went skiing in Japan is cool.”This made sense to him.So what do Japanese think? They just assume you're an illiterate person in Japan to teach English to little kids in a tiny box. If you speak Japanese that's particularly shocking in an urban center or tourist area, but in most of Japan not so much. Japan is more and more diverse.We are not far off from the point where the word “Japanese” like the word “English” no longer refers to an ethnicity.Just today in a ramen restaurant I heard a Japanese woman explain to her son that I am an English teacher as I was talking with my half Japanese, half Indian friend who was educated in Hong Kong and owns the restaurant. I replied in Japanese bluntly, “I am not an English teacher, of any kind, at all. I do not teach.” Later she almost desperately tried to ask me how I could be anything but an instructor of English, because I'm white, so …The elderly in particular are happy if you speak Japanese but it's natural for them to assume you don't unless you're in a rural area where you must speak Japanese or go home.In rural, non-tourist Japan it shocks absolutely no one that you speak Japanese. There is progressively more ignorance on both sides of the equation the closer you get to urban centers where non-Japanese somehow think is alright to live in Japan for decades and not learn the language.

How did the Japanese know so much about Pearl Harbor prior to the attack?

A key difference between the United States and other nations in the first century and a half of its existence was that it had a cultural dislike of militarism and considered the strategic rivalries of Europe to be paranoid, barbaric, and un-American. Consequently, American military security was limited and often nearly non-existent.When the Nazi regime in Germany first sent spies to the United States to conduct industrial espionage, the agents reported back that they mostly didn’t need to conduct any espionage. Aside from some secret processes and formulae (like the one for Coca-Cola), you could learn most of what you needed to know about a given American industry (like aircraft, trucks, alloys, or shipbuilding) by reading public reports and trade magazines, or by visiting the plant and asking to be shown around. The Americans had several times the industrial capacity of any foreign nation, they had no real enemies, and they didn’t care who looked over their airfields and naval yards.Pearl Harbor was an immense military facility that had been growing by bits and pieces over the course of several decades with no serious thought to security. It was surrounded by civilian neighborhoods and commercial areas, pineapple plantations, bars, dancehalls, and scenic overlooks. You could take tours of the harbor to gawk at the ships or park at various places to watch them from shore and take as many photos as you liked. You could even hire a plane and take photos of battleship row from the air.Japanese spies in Hawaii had a pretty sweet gig, as espionage assignments went. The work was easy as long as you didn’t trespass on military property. Because the Japanese army wasn’t interested in invading Hawaii, getting details on fortifications and top secret installations wasn’t needed. Because the Japanese military considered hardcore intelligence work beneath the dignity of the true warrior, there was almost no effort to get details or documents involving codes, signals, planning, or logistics.The Japanese learned what they thought was important to their operational plans, and, like the Germans, assumed they could get by without the rest of it. Which was why the British, Russians, and Americans ran rings round them on secrecy and intelligence for most of the war.