are japanese persons rude against western people?

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Well, i've heard it quite a lot times. Is this true, cause i rather thought the opposite
Would like to go to japan once, but that makes me doubt. So what do you know?

I don't agree, at least not from what I've experienced.

but my good friend lived in Japan for 6 months and later told me that he never thought that he will one day be subject to such discrimination because of his race (he is a pale, ginger Irishman) as he did in Japan...

I don't know that it would be fair to say that ALL or MOST or even SOME japanese people are routinely rude to Westerners.
It's too broad of a generalization. Like saying all Westerners are obese pigs.

Just remember that when traveling to other countries, you are a guest and are obligated to know, understand and adhere to the customs of the country you're visitng. No matter how you personally feel about the customs and mannerisms it is simply respectful to blend into the new surroundings as best as possible and always appear humble.

The Jap side of my family more or less brushes me off because I'm a halfbreed that lives in the USA.

The (very limited quantity of) Japanese people I've ever met have been very respectful.

I would like to go to Japan aswell, but I do wonder, well technicaly Australia is not realy western, we count as an area of Australasia, I think we have a fairly large Japanese population anyway. The transfer students I would see from school didnt realy react so bad, but that might be that they realy wanted to come. Maybe we should look at what they often put Americans in anime and some movies like to have idea of what they might think, from what I have seen often as war crazy generals or often arrogent gangsters. But that is not every media I know, hey we are often shown as being like Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee.

I think you really should be asking yourself if they really are rude or if they just appear rude due to cultural difference.

There is a definate condescendency by Japanese towards Non-Japanese, but you really have to get to know them to see it. They are the world-class masters of passive-aggressive bigotry.

At least American bigots tend to be more openly aggressive, so they're easy to spot.

Gauging Japanese attitudes to foreigners by anime to me sounds akin to gauging Indian attitudes to foreigners by Bollywood.

I was just saying to look at their pop culture that might offer some idea of what they think about other cultures.

I've lived in Misawa, Japan off base for a year(1988) though we did live close to the base, most of the people were kind and respectful even helpful, though I'd catch some of the school kids pointing at us and laughing. Damn kids everywhere are about the same.

I'm probably still going to go in vacation to there once (maybe
over like 5 years when i completely masterd the language )
Also i'm not american, english or whatever, wonder if it matters