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>I won't say it's easy, you still have to look OK, have decent social skills, etc
I dunno, I've known some very obnoxious, prickish, honestly kind of ugly looking guys who still managed to get fairly decent-looking Japanese girlfriends, and not because they were pickup artists, either. It's a different world here. I've never dated in Japan because I was married before I came here, but from what I can see it's definitely not a total myth that a 4/10 white guy can do well here.
> there are definitely still plenty of women who don't want to date a foreigner
This part's definitely true, though, in fact it's the large majority of them from what I understand. Single Japanese girls who are into foreigners will still outnumber you many times over, however, which is part of why I think the above is true.
>it's just not in the cards with the career I've built etc.
Understandable. The pay here is fucking abysmal, and if I were only making money off Japanese business, I would be considering going back, which is saying a lot because I love it here and hated where I lived in the US.