Is Japan really more "intolerant and racist" than the West as much as people claim it to be?
I mean the same west where the sight of scary brown people lead to a rise in nativism and the far-right?
I mean, this kind of question may be impossible to answer, both because you can't easily measure racism and because overt displays of racism are socially undesirable. That said, the likely counterargument here would be that Abe's membership in Nippon Kaigi effectively means that their alt-right has been in power for six years already.