Originally Posted by Mord

Dude. It's both. It's being denied housing and bank accounts because you're not Japanese. And it's being harassed and detained (or arrested) by police just because you're not Japanese and happen to be out late at night (and therefore automatically up to no good).

The J-cops can keep you for 520 days, and they don't have to tell anyone. You just vanish one day.

Oh, you don't have your foreign residence card on you when the cop asks for it? They can haul you away and not tell your family or employer where you are for 520 days.

This is what I'm talking about. That shit would never happen in the States, this place you guys keep saying is super racist. It's not. It's mildly racist.