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Personal anecdote: I was trying to get housing lined up for a job offer in Japan, but every place I liked, I head from the realtor "Oh, that place isn't accepti
by qmarchi 2y ago
Personal anecdote: I was trying to get housing lined up for a job offer in Japan, but every place I liked, I head from the realtor "Oh, that place isn't accepting foreigners."
Love the country, but it's definitely a "We love you visiting, but please go home" vibe.
- ranger_danger 2y agoAnd the problem with that is it's technically illegal (yes really, see ICERD of 1996, yet there is TONS of blatant misinformation about this online), but is extremely common and widespread because nobody bothers to sue for it. I mean, you wouldn't want to rent from someone that irrationally hates you in the first place, so they just keep moving and nothing ever improves. https://ies.keio.ac.jp/upload/20210514appliedpaper.pdf https://ies.keio.ac.jp/upload/20210514appliedpaper.pdf And even though it is technically illegal, some courts in Japan have already ruled that some types of "discrimination" is somehow OK if it's argued as a specific technicality, such as "foreigner means not a citizen and therefore more likely to move back home" rather than declining explicitly based on race/skin color/country of origin. Plus "precedent" is not really a thing in such civil law countries so that makes further cases no less difficult to defend.