>>1355876I'd guess you're Japanese. I didn't say that I followed a tout. I didn't. But plenty of people /do/ follow Yakuza-backed African touts that target foreigners.
> Japan is perfectly safe, you just broke the one golden rule of keeping yourself safe.Japan is perfectly safe, but people are routinely robbed, harassed, assaulted by African touts that crawl Roppongi, Shijuku, etc.? You can't have it both ways I'm afraid. Parts of Tokyo /are/ unsafe. Tons of people get drunk (Roppongi is a nightlife district after all) and make bad decisions. You can't simply blame intoxicated people for being harassed or robbed by African street hawks. It is something any traveler to Tokyo needs to be aware of. Parts are definitely not safe. And any given day, robberies targeting travelers are being committed in various parts of Tokyo. When you tell people "No crime in Tokyo!" they are likely to let their guard down. It's reckless to say such things given the frequency of foreigner-targeted crime.
>>1355991> Yeah anon I'm sorry but you're very much the deluded one.Incorrect. As I have already mentioned, official travel websites for most western countries to have warnings regarding moderate levels of petty crime and assault targeting foreigners in Tokyo, and this has been my experience.
> As someone who went to Roppongi and traveled around the shittiest parts of Shibuya (where a lot of the hustlers are), the only time you realy find yourself getting assaulted is if you look for it like an idiot.Wrong. I didn't "look" for anything, but was harassed by African hawks. The natives also tried to scam me constantly. Thankfully I wasn't drunk enough to be successfully scammed.
> This is like me saying NYC is safe because I never got robbed or assaulted.No one would say NYC is completely "safe." However, plenty of people would falsely claim that Tokyo is without crime--especially on this board. They're wrong, and people are going to be scammed as a result of your ignorance.
