Japan's image in the media

I was just wondering, what do you think of Japan?
When I first became interested in Japan, it was via shows like NHK, anime/manga, games and tourism. Because of this, I used to have a very 'fantasy-style' image of Japan.
But when I started watching educational videos about Japan and studying courses on Japanese issues in society, I realized that Japanese tourism presents an extremely 'perfect' image of Japan to the point of it being quite hard to discover things about the country's actual social issues and struggles until one actually goes there.
Even now, there are many things that I am still learning!


I know that yes, that is a skill of tourism. And I do notice that some anime/manga and tv show are actually really good at portraying the real life issues in Japan. For other countries, i feel like no matter what they do some big news comes out and their social issues end up on the news a lot. But I feel like Japanese tourism is quite good at controlling this kind of news.

But I have to say, regardless the country is very cool and one can have many wonderful experiences there. It is an interesting place with a huge history and many different kinds of cultures.