Hello everyone, first of all i'd like to introduce myself. My name is Johan and i live in Sweden. Im new on this forum and i came here to get some opinions on a question i have been thinking about for some time.

The question is: Would people like me be able to live in japan or go on holliday there?

You see, i have a couple of allergics. These range almost harmless reactions to life threatening.

My current allergies are these

1. Milk proteine (I can ingest a maxium of 0.2 litres of warm milk but the doctors does not recommend it)

2. eggs (I can eat those in cakes and bread without reaction, but not eggs itself)

3. Soy, beans and similar stuff (This is quiet severe actually, beans i can't eat without getting affected by throat pain and soy is a life threatening one for me. Skin contact with soy alco triggers a reaction)

4. nuts, all kinds (my most severe allergy, skin contact or digestion, both of em are very dangerous to me)

5. lobsters, crabs and similar animals (i have never gotten in contact with these but from my test results they classify this as a little below soy level so i suspect similar reaction)

What type of social obstacles does this present to me? In sweden i can politely say no thanks when being asked to eat at a friend due to my allergics but in japan i don't know if that is possible without offending people. Can i get some advice on this please?

//Kurten