Civilised, if you ignore the massive widespread racism and the continued honouring of war criminals from WW2.
Prosperous if you ignore the way shifting demography and a resistance to immigration is grinding their economy to a halt.
Japan is a favoured totem of the far-right because they see it as their ideal of a functioning 'ethnostate'

They talk about it in pretty well identical terms to those of 'left wing' Paul Embery
I'm a big fan of Japan, been before and would go again. But there's no excuse for airbrushing its problems simply because you want to make an argument against immigration
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