are japanese persons rude against western people?

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I think people who make stereotypes based upon race are the rudest.

Having just had a holiday in Japan I found the people to be very polite and pleasant. Polite manners seem to matter over there and this seems to help to create (from my point of view anyway) a group of happy people. Not all of course, but I picked up a general feeling of bonhomie amongst the population.
I liked the nodding/bowing as well. It is a nice gesture to show respect.

My daughter went last year with her friends, and the Japanese seemed to love their blond hair and blue eyes. They were a hit.

This time, an older Japanese woman stopped to remark on my daughters prettiness. Lovely people on the whole, speaking from my experiences in Japan.

As with every cultural stereotype,it really depends on the individual...some people are nice,some aren't.

wow, i seem to be very wrong 0_o o_0 °_°
well, its good news i guess ^^

in australia, the visiting japanese tourists are the most courteous and polite people.
they seem to deliberately place themselves in a subordinate role when they meet australian residents.
like they may ask us to take their picture with their camera, and it is no trouble to do so at all, but they bow and smile as if they were given a block of land. they are very thankful and have impeccable manners.

japanese people who live in australia, are usually only temporary like CEO's that live here for a few years to perform their roles.
they would not trade their japanese way of life for a life like ours.
they have great pride in their heritage and their part of the world, and australia is not as rich as japan, and our major city sydney is like a town compared to tokyo.
so it would be a devolution for them to live here permanently (as i have been told by one).
there was a japanese person at my work once, and he told me that no one except for those with pure japanese blood can become a citizen of japan.
there are few exceptions (like if only one parent is japanese and your family was resident in japan at, and after the birth).
but if you are non japanese and wish to migrate to japan and become a citizen, it is impossible because they want their racial purity maintained.
that seems a bit superior, and therefore i see a bit of condescension in japanese people (not tourists) when they talk to me.

there is a japanese restaurant at the floor of a building i go to in the cbd.
i mistakenly went there once to get some food.

i noticed that there was only japanese signage on the windows. i wanted takeaway and i walked in and i looked at the menu on the wall and there was no english on it.

the counter person came over rapidly and extended one arm toward me and the other toward the door as if to usher me out. he was smiling and nodding.

i stayed where i was and i asked if there was any menu with english on it.
he said "ahhh no no so sorry sir...no engrish food..." and i said "no i want to know what you have to choose from"
he said "ahhh sorry sir no today tank you tank you" and he backed me out the door by walking close to me and i departed feeling annoyed.

i noticed as i was backing out, that all the diners were asian and they had an "interrupted" look on their faces. as if they had been disrupted in their meal by an escaped animal that bursted in expecting food.

that to me seemed very prejudgemental.

but on the other hand (as i see in this country), japanese people are very calm and not prone to violence. they are clean and tidy and accurate and they keep to themselves.

the japanese person i once knew from my work quoted what he said was a fundamental subconscious belief by most asians, and that is "hairlessness is close to godliness".
he said that the hairiness and bodily odour of westerners made them seem not as evolved as the advanced asian cultures like japan.
while i am not hairy and do not smell, i said to him that i can always smell some thing "noodley" about him. like there is a "soy sauce" smell coming from his pores or something.

i mean the arguments are endless. he said that japanese people can produce something that a caucasian can at a fraction of the cost due to intelligent streamlining of assembly.

i said that it is well that the caucasian thought of the concept and perfected the design so that all you have to do is work out how to mass produce it cheaply.
he frowned upon how many holidays we had and how lazy we are.
but i said we can afford to relax because we are not ants that exist merely to work.

blah blah blah.
he was fun and we had some nice talks like that one and we liked each other in the end because he knew i was not serious in my talks, but just like playing a hypothetical debate.
i myself do not actually care about any of it.
neither did he in a funny way.

i think japanese people are civilized and ok.

b9 you said some of the oservations and thoughts of what I myself have noticed of things in Australia, but I am quite sure that there is receism on both sides, just have to listen to some of the terrible things that us whities say. And on some thought I have thought that our culture is not very eficiant, and that some of their idea of rigourus excersise, and very structured ways of doing things. But of course to either inflate my ego or trying to validate the effectivness of the culture, I have come to the possibley ignorant conclusion of them having a lack of indivuality, or something to give worth to being a bit selfish.

No. Sounds like a stereotype which isn't true. There culture is just different than western culture.

I have never been to Japan, but Shogun by James Clavell suggest that the Japanese are accepting of Gaijin if they obey Japanese customs and are as polite as they possibly can, maybe more than they can.

I would love to live in japan, partly because I am a weeaboo, mostly because, to my knowledge, it is a friendly place, both culturally and socially.

I like the Ideals of Japan. As a plus, it takes much dedication for a Gaijin to assimilate, and I like the Idea of having to dedicate myself to learning a new and interesting set of social customs and such.

I doubt I will ever go there, however, much less live their, sadly.

I have an aunt who is Japanese, she's married to my mom's younger brother, and she's very nice.

When she and my uncle married my grandfather was still alive, and he used to still have bigoted beliefs about the Japanese, having grown up in WW2, but she helped him realize that he shouldn't be.