Many Western women in Japan complain that, despite plentiful romance in their home countries, they now face a dating desert.
But Yuki, an assistant manager at a popular club in Shibuya, says the reason most Japanese men appear uninterested in Western women is because they assume they will be rejected. They believe Western women only want to date Western men.
"Probably 100 percent of Japanese men think that American and European men's looks are better than ours," he says.
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