{"id":14734,"date":"2017-09-29T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14734"},"modified":"2017-09-29T17:02:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T03:02:44","slug":"japanese-only-mutates-hagoromo-yu-a-bathhouse-excluding-lgbt-in-shibuya-ku-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14734","title":{"rendered":"“Japanese Only” rules mutate: Hagoromo-yu, a bathhouse excluding LGBT in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, in reaction to local same-sex-partner ordinance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. As Debito.org has argued for decades<\/a>, if you don’t make discrimination explicitly illegal, it spreads and mutates.<\/p>\n

Now we have a bathhouse (the most famous type of “Japanese Only” businesses in Japan<\/a>) named Hagoromo-yu, in cosmopolitan Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, which has a sign up explicitly refusing custom to all LGBT customers “who don’t follow rules and morals, or don’t practice moderation” (setsudo o mamoru<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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But here’s the nasty kicker (and brazen nastiness seems to be the hallmark of Japan’s excluders these days; just consider the antics of Osaka car dealer Autoplaza in the recent Yener Case<\/a>). \u00a0The sign even includes this iyami<\/em> on the bottom, striking back against the unusual progressiveness of the local government:<\/p>\n

“Shibuya-ku has established the ‘same-sex partners ordinance’<\/a>, but we at this store will refuse service to any LGBT customers who who don’t follow rules and morals, or don’t practice moderation.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

How nice. Here’s where this place is located, for the record:<\/p>\n

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Hagoromo-yu, \u3012151-0071 Tokyo, Shibuya, Honmachi, \uff13\u2212\uff12\uff14\u2212\uff12\uff10\u3000Tel. 03-3372-4118, no dedicated website.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of TL on Sept. 4, 2017. \u00a0Although this isn’t explicitly a Debito.org issue (on the treatment of International Residents and Visible Minorities in Japan<\/a>), this is still an issue of minority treatment, and as such warrants a mention. \u00a0Feel free to give them a piece of your mind, as “moderately” as you like. \u00a0Dr. Debito Arudou<\/p>\n

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As Debito.org has argued for decades, if you don’t make discrimination explicitly illegal, it spreads and mutates.<\/p>\n

Now we have a bathhouse (the most famous type of “Japanese Only” businesses in Japan) named “Hagoromo-yu”, in cosmopolitan Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, which has a sign up explicitly refusing custom to all LGBT customers “who don’t follow rules and morals, or don’t practice moderation” (setsudo o mamoru).<\/p>\n

But here’s the nasty kicker (and brazen nastiness seems to be the hallmark of Japan’s excluders these days; just consider the antics of Osaka car dealer Autoplaza in the recent Yener Case). \u00a0The sign even includes this iyami on the bottom, striking back against the unusual progressiveness of the local government:<\/p>\n

“Shibuya-ku has established the ‘same-sex partners ordinance’, but we at this establishment will refuse service to any LGBT customers who who don’t follow rules and morals, or don’t practice moderation.”<\/p>\n

How nice. Location and contact details of Hagoromo-yu below. Feel free to give them a piece of your mind, as moderately as you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54,43,34,5,2,64,31,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-pinprick-protests","category-bad-business-practices","category-exclusionism","category-human-rights","category-otaru-onsen-lawsuit","category-sitys","category-tangents","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14762,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions\/14762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}