No foreigners allowed

[DrLeftover]

After spending 2½ years living the quiet life in buttoned-down Shiga Prefecture, Ryukoku University student Victor Rosenhoj was looking forward to moving into bustling central Kyoto, where things promised to be more lively and international. First, though, he needed to find a suitable apartment, so he picked up a copy of the student magazine, Ryudaisei No Sumai, from the cooperative store on campus.

Thumbing through it, Rosenhoj, originally from Belgium, came across an attractive and affordable place just a stone’s throw from Gojo Station in the downtown area. His heart set on the apartment, he made an appointment at the student co-op on the university’s Fukakusa campus, which arranges accommodation for students in the Kyoto area.

When he pointed to the apartment he was interested in, the shop manager told him that no foreigners were allowed to rent the place.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2013/04/23/issues/student-seeking-kyoto-flat-told-no-foreigners-allowed/

 

[Jazzy]

It's clearly discrimination but there's really nothing that can be done to change that. Just like here in the U.S. apartment owners state in their rental listings things like "no pets allowed" or "no smokers allowed". Well, hell, isn't that discrimination against pet owners and smokers? In my opinion it is but there's nothing that can be done in this scenario because the owner made it clear who can and can't rent the apartment. I guess the owner in Japan should have made it clear in the listing that no foreigners would be allowed to rent.

 

[Crusader]

Reminds me of this

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2013/04/10/no-eastern-europeans-sign-at-napton-fishing-lake-sparks-fury-92746-33146097/

 

[DrLeftover]

One slight difference

The Japanese owner won't be branded a "Racist".

 

[Evil Eye]

Amazing that he's just gonna get away with that.