I'm not sure there's much escaping these sorts of things in the future. [well, the technology, at least.] But I really don't doubt that Japan will still exist in one way or another.

[he doesn't believe their lies about the worlds specifically, but as crazy as the technology seems to him, there are plenty of others who were relatively comfortable or familiar with many of the amenities—some of those people being japanese or other countries he was familiar with.]