I need help.

Recently, whenever I open social media all I see is negativity about Japan and I can't stop my brain from taking precaution about it.
It wasn't like this before, I feel like, because now whenever I open reddit or something what I see is something even worse than what I saw before.
"New N2 requirement for PR."
"Giving 1-3 year visa after 5 year visa to prevent people from applying for PR"
"From 5 to 10 year increase in PR app. req."
"How politics manipulate Japanese people and how it affects foreigners"
"Japanese people are showing their true faces with this current politic situation"
"I got turned away from a restaurant!"
"People never talk to me in Japanese although I'm fluent!"
"My friend blocked me from social media all of a sudden" and goes like this..

At first I was like "Mhh, bunch of crying haters." but now the frequency of these posts has increased a LOT and many people agree with these stuff in the comment section and btw this visa-requirement things are official so not really arguable..

If the current situation is this bad, don't wanna imagine whats gonna happen in 3-4 years.. If not, let me know, I guess? Thanks. I don't want to invest in something that will blow up.

Me: Improving my Japanese for a bit while.
I just quit Japanese, in fact, I did it many times because of this stuff.. kinda paranoid, damaged and disappointed at this point..

Quitting Japanese-Japan because of the recent negativity.

I need help.

Recently, whenever I open social media all I see is negativity about Japan and I can't stop my brain from taking precaution about it.
It wasn't like this before I feel like, because now whenever I open reddit or something what I see is something even worse than what I saw yesterday.
"New N2 requirement for PR."
"Giving 1-3 year visa after 5 year visa to prevent people from applying for PR"
"From 5 to 10 year increase in PR app. req."
"How politics manipulate Japanese people and how it affects foreigners"
"Japanese people are showing their true faces with this current politic situation"
"I got turned away from a restaurant!"
"People never talk to me in Japanese although I'm fluent!"
"My friend blocked me from social media all of a sudden" and goes like this..

At first I was like "Mhh, bunch of crying haters." but now the frequency of these posts has increased a LOT and many people agree with these stuff in the comment section and btw you don't need to agree with this visa situation because this is official..

If the current situation is this bad, don't wanna imagine whats gonna happen in 3-4 years.. If not, let me know, I guess? Thanks. I don't want to invest in something that will blow up.

Me: Improving my Japanese for a bit while.
I just quit Japanese, in fact, I did it many times because of this stuff.. kinda paranoid, damaged and disappointed at this point..

If I get my bachelors degree online which would be accredited would it be a problem legally like in terms of visa, etc when I apply for some universities in Taiwan? Specifically not English but Chinese speaking classes (communication major).
I found no information about this on google and had to ask AI which literally said "impossible".

Please read everything before commenting for the good, its kinda important for me.
Been studying Japanese for a bit, reached beginner intermadiate level in a fairly short amount of time.

Recent things that people been posting on reddit, youtube and instagram has invaded my brain hard. Very recently people been saying that they get 1 year visa after holding a 3-5 year visa, seeing some kind of change in the attitude of locals, the distance and hidden window between locals and foreigners been getting wider and wider (some people agree some people dont), politic people (esp. Sanae) is going crazy, even requirements for getting into a language school is getting harder slowly, in a really short time there is gonna be a language requirement (high) to obtain permanent residency and its not that I find it ridiciolus, but there might be worse, restricting and weird things in the future to keep foreigners even more away even the ones who intigrate. Even many pr and passaport holders been saying that they are scared of the Japanese government taking their pr, etc in the future. I'm not gonna talk about the economy, but you know what I know.

I'm not looking for a high paying job, good economy or whatever. I'm looking for a somehow accepting society, at least accepting people who put the effort to assimilate. I want people to treat me the same (at least close) as they treat other local people. I dont want to sit alone on a bus/metro, I dont want to be spoken in English even when I speak the language, dont want to be turned away from a restraurant, dont want to be seen different.

I dont wanna be temporary. I actually wanna assimilate and stay in whatever place that is until I retire because I don't like my own places culture (wait for the end). But I have to try to foresee the future as much as possible because its not like I'm going to be an expat. I'll actually live there, even if the country goes in an "unpredictable" war. I'm doing university and this is the time I invest in myself, I won't be learning a language after a few years, never again.

Things are already seem to be getting weird and 3-4 years later (Sanae will still be there) I can't even guess how it will be.

Me: 19M, East Balkans, doing bachelors. Might go for masters in Taiwan/China or Japan.

I feel like I should choose one of these for the better:

1: Keep the Japanese. Stop being paranoid and just go with the flow, stop trying the see the future and never check negative things again and dont worry about them at all.

2: While you have time and you are still just a beginner intermediate, switch to Traditional Mandarin. As things are bad in Japan, It'll possibly continue to go downwards and in 3-4 years things will be even more messy and I'll regret existing there.

All polite answers are appreciated.

为了大家好，请在评论前完整阅读这段文字，这对我很重要。

我学习日语有一段时间了，在相当短的时间内达到了初中级水平。但最近 Reddit、YouTube 和 Instagram 上的一些言论让我深受困扰。最近总有人说，即使持有 3-5 年签证，续签时也只拿到了 1 年；当地人的态度似乎在发生变化，外国人与当地人之间的距离感和隔阂正在加深（有人认同，有人不认同）；政客们（尤其是高市早苗）的言论愈发激进；甚至申请语言学校的门槛也在慢慢变高。不久之后，获得永驻权（PR）可能会有很高的语言要求，虽然我觉得这并非无理取闹，但未来可能会有更糟糕、更具限制性且奇怪的规定，将那些即使已经融入社会的外国人也拒之门外。甚至许多持有永驻权或护照的人都说，他们担心日本政府未来会取消他们的永驻权等。经济方面我就不多说了，大家懂的都懂。

我追求的不是高薪或繁荣的经济。我想要的是一个相对包容的社会，至少能接纳那些努力同化的人。我希望人们能像对待当地人一样（或至少接近）对待我。我不希望在公交或地铁上被孤立地坐在旁边，不希望在我说日语时对方却回我英语，不希望被餐厅拒之门外，也不希望被异样看待。

我不想只做一个过客。我真的想融入那里，并在那个地方生活直到退休，因为我不喜欢自己国家的文化（请看到最后）。但我必须尽可能预见未来，因为我不是以“外派员工”的身份过去。我是要去那里生活的，即使国家陷入“不可预测”的战争。我现在正在读大学，这是我投资自己的最佳时机，几年后我就不会再有精力去学习一门新语言了。

现在的形势似乎已经变得有些奇怪，3-4 年后（高市早苗届时可能还在位），我无法想象情况会变成什么样。

个人情况： 19 岁，男性，东巴尔干地区，本科在读。打算去台湾/中国或日本读硕士。

我觉得我应该在以下两个选项中选一个更好的：

1. 坚持学日语： 别再胡思乱想，顺其自然，停止预测未来，不再关注负面消息，也完全不去担心它们。
2. 趁还有时间且日语还处于初中级阶段，转学繁体中文： 鉴于日本的情况不妙，且可能持续恶化，3-4 年后情况会更混乱，我可能会后悔留在那里。

感谢所有礼貌的建议。

(由人工智能从英文翻译)

I really like Thailand and I thought about visiting and even about long term once.
The problem: Even when it hits around 20-24 degrees in my homeland, it feels really hot which makes me feel bad because I can't stand it. Would it mean that I'd struggle a lot in Thaliand and should avoid?

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Since I don't have a really large vocab, it is really hard for me to do i+1 stuff. I often end up with 2 words in the same card. Sometimes the main sentence is x2+ longer than this sentence though. I mainly mine from yt listening practice videos and sometimes from anime.
I usually read the whole sentence and see if I still understand it.

And btw I feel like it is actually really hard to learn (recognizing) a word unless I put it on my anki unless I see that words really really often.

Should I handwrite each lesson or just read it and put the example sentence for each lesson on anki or just read without doing anything extra? Thanks.

I am using a translated version of Tae Kim's grammar guide and I encountered this translation (re-translated to english)
靴やシャツを買う > Buy shirt or shoes.

While in the original book the translation is > Buy (things like) shoes and shirt, etc...

It is indeed possible to make the exact same sentence in my native language but translator translated that japanese sentence into my native language as "Buy shirt or shoes" which differ from Tae Kim's original English translation.

Is it a big deal or no?

I am using a translated version of Tae Kim's grammar guide and I encountered this translation (re-translated to english)
靴やシャツを買う > Buy shirt or shoes.

While in the original book the translation is > Buy (things like) shoes and shirt, etc...

It is indeed possible to make the exact same sentence in my native language but translator translated that japanese sentence into my native language as "Buy shirt or shoes" which differ from Tae Kim's original English translation.

Is it a big deal or no?

So, I've studied Japanese for a while and to be honest there are tons of content available for free. Only one piece itself is +1K EP. Tae Kim's grammar guide teach you most of the grammar for free. Dozens of comprihensible input available on YT, too.
And I tried to study Mandarin a few weeks ago and I couldn't find any free-proper grammar (each level) source and couldn't find interesting-high quality movies/series more than say 10.

I tried bilibili and most of the things I've seen were fan-dubbed, low quality. IQYI was also kinda bad. Some people say there are some good content on Disney+ but they also say sub and dub dont match which would make studying really hard I believe.

I tried allsetlearning for free grammar but things were in the wrong order. (teaching something that require you to know another thing that you dont know yet).

Any advice for someone who doesn't want to spend money on learning a language?

I originally asked this in a Japan related community, but I'd also like to see what y'all think.

Talking about living until retirement, not a few years.

I'm a young adult and I've been intensely studying Japanese and I've always known the things stated below, but now I can't kick them out of my brain and been kinda losing my motivation.
*Why do majority of people choose Japan over Korea, etc. while the situation in Japan doesn't seem good at all?*

Japan's cons in my perspective:
1- People are obviously not sincere and real. Always a mask and unreal emotions. I've seen lots of 10+ yr people living in Japan with 0 local friend and no social life at all. Only wife/husband.
2- They do discriminate. I'm kinda sensitive and I could never tolerate someone not renting me a house, etc. just because I am a 外国人. Someone choosing to stand on foot than sitting next to me also would make me feel bad (this is discussed many times, some people say its fake while some say it happens a lot.)
3- Economy is going downwards.
4- Things are not getting positive but really negative for foreigners, politically and socially, compared to previous years (people getting 1 year visa after 3-5, new n5 requirement for lang. school, etc.)
5- Working culture. Doesn't matter if you are a salaryman or a trampoline park employee you need to be always smiling and being polite no matter what, doesn't matter if the customer is wrong or not.
6- Tense rules. One woman employee was criticized by her boss just because of eating something as breakfast while taking the train, if y'all remember. She was reported to the company by someone in the train (she bad a badge). Can't even eat a damn onigiri at 7 am?

While in Taiwan, Korea, etc.
1- They actually like foreigners and treat them normal?
2- Economy, politics, visa situations, social norms etc. seem to be more stable compared to Japan.
3- You can always get local friends, many people are accepting and usually like to socialize with foreigners.
4- Tense, unwritten rules don't exist as much as in Japan.

So I might be wrong so if you see something you don't agree or false please let me know, respectfully. Thank you for your time.

Talking about living until retirement, not a few years.

I'm a young adult and I've been intensely studying Japanese and I've always known the things stated below, but now I can't kick them out of my brain and been kinda losing my motivation.
*Why do we(majority of people) choose Japan over others while the situation doesn't seem good at all?*

Japan's cons in my perspective:
1- People are obviously not sincere and real. Always a mask and unreal emotions. I've seen lots of 10+ yr people living in Japan with 0 local friend and no social life at all. Only wife/husband.
2- They do discriminate. I'm kinda sensitive and I could never tolerate someone not renting me a house, etc. just because I am a 外国人. Someone choosing to stand on foot than sitting next to me also would make me feel bad (this is discussed many times, some people say its fake while some say it happens a lot.)
3- Economy is going downwards.
4- Things are not getting positive but really negative for foreigners, politically and socially, compared to previous years (people getting 1 year visa after 3-5, new n5 requirement for lang. school, etc.)
5- Working culture. Doesn't matter if you are a salaryman or a trampoline park employee you need to be always smiling and being polite no matter what, doesn't matter if the customer is wrong or ass.
6- Tense rules. One woman employee was criticized by her boss just because of eating something as breakfast while taking the train, if y'all remember. She was reported to the company by someone in the train (she bad a badge). Can't even eat a damn onigiri at 7 am?

While in Taiwan, etc.
1- They actually like foreigners and treat them normal? In China, too?
2- Economy, politics, visa situations, social norms etc. seem to be more stable compared to Japan.
3- You can always get local friends, many people are accepting and usually like to socialize with foreigners.
4- Tense, unwritten rules don't exist as in Japan.

So I might be wrong so if you see something you don't agree or false please let me know, respectfully. Thank you for your time.

I originally asked this question to a Japanese community, but also wanted to post it here to see what y'all think.

Talking about living until retirement, not a few years.

I'm a young adult and I've been intensely studying Japanese and I've always known the things stated below, but now I can't kick them out of my brain and been kinda losing my motivation.
*Why do we(majority of people) choose Japan over others while the situation doesn't seem good at all?*

Japan's cons in my perspective:
1- People are obviously not sincere and real. Always a mask and unreal emotions. I've seen lots of 10+ yr people living in Japan with 0 local friend and no social life at all. Only wife/husband.
2- They do discriminate. I'm kinda sensitive and I could never tolerate someone not renting me a house, etc. just because I am a 外国人. Someone choosing to stand on foot than sitting next to me also would make me feel bad (this is discussed many times, some people say its fake while some say it happens a lot.)
3- Economy is going downwards.
4- Things are not getting positive but really negative for foreigners, politically and socially, compared to previous years (people getting 1 year visa after 3-5, new n5 requirement for lang. school, etc.)
5- Working culture. Doesn't matter if you are a salaryman or a trampoline park employee you need to be always smiling and being polite no matter what, doesn't matter if the customer is wrong or ass.
6- Tense rules. One woman employee was criticized by her boss just because of eating something as breakfast while taking the train, if y'all remember. She was reported to the company by someone in the train (she bad a badge). Can't even eat a damn onigiri at 7 am?

While in Taiwan, etc.
1- They actually like foreigners and treat them normal? In China, too?
2- Economy, politics, visa situations, social norms etc. seem to be more stable compared to Japan.
3- You can always get local friends, many people are accepting and usually like to socialize with foreigners.
4- Tense, unwritten rules don't exist as in Japan.

So I might be wrong so if you see something you don't agree or false please let me know, respectfully. Thank you for your time.

Talking about living until retirement, not a few years.

I'm a young adult and I've been intensely studying Japanese and I've always known the things stated below, but now I can't kick them out of my brain and been kinda losing my motivation.
*Why do we choose Japan over others while the situation doesn't seem good at all?*

Japan's cons in my perspective:
1- People are obviously not sincere and real. Always a mask and unreal emotions. I've seen lots of 10+ yr people living in Japan with 0 local friend and no social life at all. Only wife/husband.
2- They do discriminate. I'm kinda sensitive and I could never tolerate someone not renting me a house, etc. just because I am a 外国人. Someone choosing to stand on foot than sitting next to me also would make me feel bad (this is discussed many times, some people say its fake while some say it happens a lot.)
3- Economy is going downwards.
4- Things are not getting positive but really negative for foreigners, politically and socially, compared to previous years (people getting 1 year visa after 3-5, new n5 requirement for lang. school, etc.)
5- Working culture. Doesn't matter if you are a salaryman or a trampoline park employee you need to be always smiling and being polite no matter what, doesn't matter if the customer is wrong or ass.
6- Tense rules. One woman employee was criticized by her boss just because of eating something as breakfast while taking the train, if y'all remember. She was reported to the company by someone in the train (she bad a badge). Can't even eat a damn onigiri at 7 am?

While in Taiwan, etc.
1- They actually like foreigners and treat them normal? In China, too?
2- Economy, politics, visa situations, social norms etc. seem to be more stable compared to Japan.
3- You can always get local friends, many people are accepting and usually like to socialize with foreigners.
4- Tense, unwritten rules don't exist as in Japan.

So I might be wrong so if you see something you don't agree or false please let me know, respectfully. Thank you for your time.

Cant express how much i'd appreciate if someone answered to this:

ppl on reddit have been saying that they are leaving japan cuz recently politic ppl and locals become more against foreigners. some ppl say in public spaces locals tend to be more distant and cold recently. never sitting next to foreigners etc. and pr(or citizenship) year requirement has been increased to 10 from 5. also economy is getting worse every year.

so should i follow a different path while i still got time or these stuff are just temporary and not a big deal? thanks