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Originally Posted by GTJ
It's also a shame that Japan is the only modernized/industrialized/first world/whatever the PC people are calling it now, country that has no laws against racism or race- or gender-based discrimination. None. Foreign labor unions are getting a tiny bit of sway, but nothing we foreigners can do will shake the foundation of the ignorance of the Japanese government. You just have to learn to accept it for however long you're going to be there.
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There are laws, but they are never enforced. I should be getting disability from Japan from an injury I suffered at work. First my manager lied about it because he would have gotten in trouble for not following safety guidelines. Then he threatened all the Japanese employees with termination if they were witnesses for me (6 of the honest ones quit because of this). I got an attorney and he was told by the Japanese Labor board "Japan will never give disability to a gaijin". He refused to take it any further and refused my payment because he was embarrassed.
Laws are just words on paper if no one enforces them.
