I always feel "I love Japan they're so efficient and clean" is some type of coded phrase for peeps that just want to live in a monoculture/monoethnic dystopia, as it has the same fash vibes as saying Mussolini made the trains run on time. Like we could have bullet trains and cleaner cities too, just take the police budgets and give them to sanitation workers and set up incentivized recycle bins like in Germany that give out coins for putting in bottles and such