1.1 Housing : I have been refused accommodation because I was a foreigner
1.2 Housing : My company provides my accommodation (so no problem)
1.3 Housing : I have only stayed at gaijin houses, hotels or friends' houses
1.4 Housing : I have lived in Japan for many years, rented my housing via a estate agent, and never had any problem
1.5 Housing : I have only stayed in Japan for two years or less, rented my housing via a estate agent, but never had any problem
2.1 Tourism : I have been refused entry to a hotel, guesthouse or weekly mansion because I was a foreigner
2.2 Tourism : I have stayed a few times in hotels, guesthouses and/or weekly mansions and have never been refused entry
2.3 Tourism : I have stayed numerous times in hotels, guesthouses and/or weekly mansions and have never been refused entry
3.1 Entertainment : I have been refused entry to at least one restaurant, bar, nightclub, onsen or public bath because I was a foreigner
3.2 Entertainment : I have been a few times to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, onsen or public baths, and was never refused entry
3.3 Entertainment : I have been a hundreds of times to restaurants, bars, nightclubs, onsen or public baths, and was never refused entry
4.1 Police : I have been stopped and asked for an ID (passport/alien registration) by the police for no reason
4.2 Police : I have been stopped while riding a bicycle and had my bike registration checked during day time for no reason
4.3 Police : I have been stopped while riding a bicycle and had my bike registration checked during night time for no reason
4.4 Police : I have been mistakenly arrested (taken to the police station)
4.5 Police : I have had other discriminatory problems with the police
4.6 Police : I have stayed for many years in Japan and have never been checked or annoyed by the police in Japan
4.7 Police : I have stayed less than 2 years in Japan and have never been checked or annoyed by the police in Japan
5.1 Sexual Discrimination : I have experienced sexual harassment in Japan
5.2 Sexual Discrimination : I have experienced sexual discrimination regarding promotion, salary or opportunity
5.3 Sexual Discrimination : I am not a woman or have never worked in a Japanese company
Once a drunk businessman in Fuji City stumbled up to me and called me "gaijin".
A group of us would get turned away at nomihodai (all-you-can-drink) sometimes, but that's understandable since we'd drink ourselves stupid and make a scene.
Other than that, I didn't have any problems. I never got my foreigner ID checked in the 15 months I was in Japan.
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Don't tell me you have only heard once somebody call you "gaijin" ? It has happnened to me hundreds of times. It doesn't even bother me anymore. There is so much more worse than that !Originally Posted by Brooker
However that's a good point that you can use drunk people as a way to know what they really think of foreigners. I live in an area with lots of izakayas and restaurants, so every Friday night I get drunk people all around me in the streets (a few hundreds, as there is certainly over 100 restaurants/bars within 15min walk of my house). It has happened to me to be told strange things also related to "gaijin" by drunkards.
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my trouble have only been with the police. Why? I don't look suspicious. I look like Fred Savage meets Frodo Baggins.
I've been asked for my bike registration several times, both in broad daylight. Both times they also insisted on seeing my alien registration card. I've also been randomly stopped by the police for no apparent reason. Once, on late night walk I was stopped at an ice cream vending machine. They asked, "What are you doing?"
"Eating ice cream."
"What's your destination?"
"No where particular."
They looked kinda disappointed with me...
However, I've never been harassed or treated badly. Considering the kind of racial profiling that goes on in the states, this is nothing.
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