[cranks]

This is not really a problem with race or xenophobia. This guy was talking about how he was discriminated in a public bath on YouTube too, saying he had to use a foreigner bath that costed a lot more than the one for Japanese, making the issue sounded like black people were refused to use a swimming pool with white people. The reason why the public bath started, or had to start, segregating foreigners was because a bunch of foreigners who didn't know how to use a public bath, and who didn't speak Japanese, and who didn't really care to respect Japanese bath taking culture went in there and washed their body in the tub, which is pretty much a taboo there. Japanese people do not want to share the tub with them not because they are foreigners, but they don't follow the Japanese bath taking rules, and make the tub dirty. Yes it is very crude and bigoted to make it "Japanese Only", but the reason behind it is actually not racial. Given the choice, they will take any foreigner who use the bath cleanly over a genetically Japanese person who washes his/her body in the tub. There is a high possibility the "Japanese Only" place happily accepts a foreigner who speak perfect Japanese without an accent. What they don't want is the people who don't understand Japanese culture and don't respect it. Immigration status or ethnic background have nothing to do with this.

Yes, there are a lot of things the public bath could do instead of posting "Japanese Only" sign, like making the rules clear and/or have training sessions or something. But then they don't even speak English. How are they gonna do it? As a person who understand English and Japanese, and understand Western and Japanese culture, the guy could help them establish foreigner friendly rules. But he doesn't fancy that, and instead he's like advocating how bad Gaijin discrimination in Japan is. It seems to me what he's accomplishing are

1.
Painting Japan a racist country,

2.
Entrenching prejudice of Japanese people that Gaijin are the people who don't even want to understand Japanese culture, and forcibly demand what they want to have.

I don't know if they are what he wanted, but he's doing them pretty effectively imo.