Next Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column out tomorrow Tues July 6, on Japan’s unlawfully exclusionary hotel industry

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Hi Blog.  Just to let you know, tomorrow Tues July 6 (Weds in the provinces) sees my 29th Japan Times JUST BE CAUSE column.

This time it’s a double-length column on Japan’s hostile hosteling industry, where even when a law expressly states under what conditions hotels can exclude customers (and these conditions do not include race or nationality), the law gets ignored as hotels bar foreigners from entry.  Furthermore, we have at least one regional government tourism agency expressly promoting hotels which bar or restrict NJ customers.  When you even have a government agency being unlawful, you know we have a serious problem with the rule of law in Japan.

Get a copy of my column tomorrow at newsstands.  Thanks for reading!  Arudou Debito in Sapporo

UPDATE:  Here’s a link to it:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20100706ad.html

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