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Hi Blog. We’ve talked before about differing standards for NJ in regards to equal treatment<\/a> as consumers<\/a>, customers<\/a>, residents<\/a> and taxpayers<\/a>, equal pricing for services<\/a>, and access to credit<\/a>. Now here’s another report about barriers for NJ only to purchase Bitcoin, the international cryptocurrency, in Japan.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know much about Bitcoin until recently (here’s a good primer from NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross<\/a>), but now it’s become a legitimate currency, accepted by the likes of Microsoft for payment, so denial of access to it affects Japan’s NJ residents’ abilities to pay a bill easily, quickly, and without extortionate bank fees. (Especially ironic is that the pseudonym for Bitcoin’s creator is “Satoshi Nakamoto”<\/a>, but never mind.)<\/p>\n

I’ll let Debito.org Reader Shiki take the keyboard from here with his report. \u00a0Dr. Debito Arudou<\/p>\n

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From: Shiki<\/strong>
\n Subject: Discrimination of good and services based on nationality<\/strong>
\n Date: December 2, 2017<\/strong>
\n To: debito@debito.org<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hello Dr. Debito,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently, because of the Bitcoin fever, I’ve been looking at bitcoin and other crypto exchanges in Japan, and signing up for almost every single one of them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of them have presented no problem, they follow the law in which they have the obligation to ask for an official ID, \u00a0just like PayPal does in Japan, for which I have been sending the front of my Personal Number Card (My Number Card), and then they send you a post card to your address to confirm you actually live there.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s what these exchanges and basically any virtual money company in Japan is required to do by law.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s except for 2 exchanges, Quoinex and BITPoint.<\/em><\/p>\n

The law states that any valid official ID can be used, but these 2 exchanges only accept a Resident Card for foreigners, and Quoinex go so far as to ask for a passport to those individuals who are Japanese but are “suspected” of being foreigners from their names, etc. (basically racial profiling).<\/em><\/p>\n

The following is the conversation I had with the support staff from Quoinex who, after more than a week after I sent all my info in, told me “My documents didn’t match”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nQUOINEX Support (QUOINEX Japan)<\/strong>
\n Nov 15, 3:08 PM JST<\/strong>
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After this, I went to their public telegram group and posted about this, for which I received the following answer:<\/em><\/p>\n

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What Quoinex basically says is that they are asking for “proof” of nationality as part of their KYC (Know Your Customer) policy, which somehow does not apply to people who are not suspected of being foreigners.<\/em><\/p>\n

The other exchange, BITPoint, basically rejected my registration, and told me to send them both sides of the Resident Card, as the following main shows:<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nENDS<\/p>\n

Shiki<\/strong>: Let me be very clear, most exchanges do not ask for this. I registered with the major Japanese exchanges like bitFlyer and Coincheck among other minor exchanges. With all of them I used my Personal Number Card, and no one told me I had to do something different because of my face.<\/em><\/p>\n

But like these 2 exchanges, more and more companies who like racial profiling are starting to ask for the Residence Card for extra-legal purposes<\/a>, basically discriminating in the way people are able to open accounts or register to services based on their nationality unless you comply with some extra requirements.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the worst examples of this is AU [as did NTT<\/a> and Softbank<\/a>], which is starting to reject foreigners for buying phones in multiple payments, if the expiration of their current status in Japan does not exceed the payment timeframe for their phones, which is usually 2 years. This basically means that if your current stay permit is of 1 year, or your stay is about to expire in less than 2 years, you won’t be able to get a phone at the same price than Japanese people.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let’s remember that the maximum stay period in Japan for most visas is of 5 years, and that you cannot renew your stay until 3 months prior to the expiration date of your current permit, which I would make the case that it excludes most foreigners under a non-permanent residency status.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Just like the My Number law states very clearly that it is illegal for someone who isn\u2019t required by law to ask for your \u201cMy Number\u201d, or taking copies of the part of your card which shows the actual number, I think we require a law to stop people who for asking for someone\u2019s Residence Card if they aren\u2019t legally required to do so. In some respects I would argue that the information inside the Residence Card is in many respects just as sensitive as your \u201cMy Number\u201d, and asking for it is an invasion of privacy at best.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m also wondering if there is any law, even in those international agreements like the one used for the Otaru case<\/a>, that makes it illegal to have different requirements based on someone\u2019s nationality.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely, Shiki<\/strong><\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n

(Answer from Debito: \u00a0There are laws protecting against unsanctioned Gaijin Card checks<\/a>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Shiki: Recently I’ve been signing up for Bitcoin and other crypto exchanges in Japan. Most vendors have presented no problem, they follow the law in which they have the obligation to ask for an official ID, just like PayPal does in Japan, for which I have been sending the front of my Personal Number Card (My Number Card), and then they send you a post card to your address to confirm you actually live there. That’s what these exchanges and basically any virtual money company in Japan is required to do by law.<\/p>\n

Except for 2 exchanges, Quoinex and BITPoint. I registered with the major Japanese exchanges like bitFlyer and Coincheck among other minor exchanges. With all of them I used my Personal Number Card, and no one told me I had to do something different because of my face. But like these 2 exchanges, more and more companies who like racial profiling are starting to ask for the Residence Card for extra-legal purposes, basically discriminating in the way people are able to open accounts or register to services based on their nationality unless you comply with some extra requirements.<\/p>\n

One of the worst examples of this is AU, which is starting to reject foreigners for buying phones in multiple payments, if the expiration of their current status in Japan does not exceed the payment timeframe for their phones, which is usually 2 years. This basically means that if your current stay permit is of 1 year, or your stay is about to expire in less than 2 years, you won’t be able to get a phone at the same price as Japanese people. Let’s remember that the maximum stay period in Japan for most visas is of 5 years, and that you cannot renew your stay until 3 months prior to the expiration date of your current permit, which I would make the case that it excludes most foreigners under a non-permanent residency status.<\/p>\n

Just like the My Number law states very clearly that it is illegal for someone who isn\u2019t required by law to ask for your \u201cMy Number\u201d, or taking copies of the part of your card which shows the actual number, I think we require a law to stop people who for asking for someone\u2019s Residence Card if they aren\u2019t legally required to do so. In some respects I would argue that the information inside the Residence Card is in many respects just as sensitive as your \u201cMy Number\u201d, and asking for it is an invasion of privacy at best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,54,43,34,33,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-pinprick-protests","category-bad-business-practices","category-exclusionism","category-fingerprinting-nj","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14820","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=14820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14822,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14820\/revisions\/14822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}