> Good to hear it may be not as bad as some make it out so

A lot of foreigners make it seem way worse than it really is.
I think it has more to do with them moving into Japan because "so different", and then they complain that it's not like their home country.
Move the fuck back then!

This is where this whole "NOBODY WANTS TO SIT NEXT TO FOREIGNERS IN TRAINS BOOHOO!!" bullshit came from.
Sure, if you emit any scent (good or bad, doesn't matter, just about anything entering our nose is considered bad), people will distance themselves from you.
Or people who are so fat they take up more than 1 seat, same shit.
But instead of taking these into account, they just cry "REEEE REEECISM!!".
Yea, fuck off...

> because when a man has a problem, it's always a personal problem, but when a female has a problem, it's the society that's fucked up.

And this is why the smart people turn a man's problem into a woman's problem, and wait until soyciety fixes itself.

> I think there are plenty of landlords willing to make an exception if the dweller is female expat.

nope.
If you're a foreigner who doesn't have permanent residency status, you'll be treated like someone who can possibly flee any moment, regardless of gender.
It's more a matter of money than anything else really.