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Originally Posted by annelie82
It should also be pointed out that the reason that foreigners who venture out alone (i.e. without the company of Japanese hosts/friends) in metropolitan Japan are sometimes barred from restaurants and other businesses often has nothing to do with racism and more to do with the persistent fear that they will not have enough knowledge of Japanese language and customs to cope on their own. Usually, this is also the case.
~annelie
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These signs are
very rare, and what annelie says here probably accounts for 90% of them.
When you go into shops faces seem to lighten up noticeably, when you establish that you can speak some Japanese.