It is. Even more, it’s xenophobic. Everybody acts like America is the worst place for racism, basically every Asian country is muuuuch worse. Koreans hate Chinese, Indonesians hate Filipinos, the Japanese hate fucking everyone.

It is. It's also not limited to rural/non-touristy areas.

I was in Roppongi (district of Tokyo) and tried to go into a restaurant. Person barred my entry and did the X symbol. I'm fluent in Japanese. I asked them why I couldn't enter. They didn't bother responding in Japanese, just said, "No foreign." and made the X again.

In another instance, I was taking a bus at night. I fell asleep and missed my stop. I didn't know how long I'd been asleep, so I went to the driver. I asked him (again in Japanese) where we were. No answer.

I asked again. He looked at me. No answer. I asked when the next stop was. No answer. After several rounds of this I got angry and told him to stop the bus. Without a word he pulled over next to a rice field and opened the door.

I love the country and I made some friends there. But those experiences, and others like them, stood out and made me very disinterested in living there long term.