{"id":16947,"date":"2021-12-31T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16947"},"modified":"2021-12-31T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T22:42:41","slug":"happy-new-year-2022-tokyo-asakusa-suzuya-theatrical-prop-store-bars-foreign-customers-to-prevent-covid-infection-plus-momosaku-another-repeat-offender-in-asakusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=16947","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022: Tokyo Asakusa “Suzuya” theatrical prop store bars “foreign customers” to “prevent COVID infection”. (Plus Momosaku, another repeat offender in Asakusa.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. Happy New Year 2022! May this be a healthy and happy one for all Debito.org Readers.<\/p>\n

Let me open the year inauspiciously with a post about new “Japanese Only” signs.<\/p>\n

The first one is from a store called “Suzuya Buyou Kodougu” (Suzuya Traditional Dance Props) in Asakusa Kouen Nishisandou. Courtesy lots of people, but notably SD, RO, and MW.<\/p>\n

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\nhttp:\/\/asakusasuzuya.co.jp\/shop.html<\/a>
\nMapped at https:\/\/itp.ne.jp\/info\/133487635100000899\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Feel free to contact them and tell them what you think about their sign, particularly since no foreign tourists (and very few foreign residents) are being allowed into Japan to spread Covid<\/a>. Yet that doesn’t stop racist signs depicting foreigners already here (who like regular Japanese residents probably haven’t travelled abroad) as more infectious than Japanese from appearing on stores (again<\/a>). \u00a0Because (again<\/a>) there’s no law against racial discrimination in Japan stopping anyone from putting up a “Japanese Only” sign for any reason whatsoever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, eagle-eyed Debito.org Readers are sending in other exclusionary signs they’ve discovered:<\/p>\n

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From: XY<\/strong>
\nSubject: Discriminatory posting spoted in the wild<\/strong>
\nDate: December 27, 2021<\/strong>
\nTo: Debito Arudou <debito@debito.org><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Debito,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since you post things like this from time to time, I thought I’d send over a photo of a sign I saw tonight when I was out looking for a place to grab a bite. It’s an izakaya in Asakusa called Momosaku.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Why post that you only have service\/menus in Japanese when you can reach straight for the discrimination, I guess, eh? — XY.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Name: 100 (izakaya)\u00a0(Momosaku \u767e\u4f5c)<\/strong>
\nAddress: 4 Chome-7-12 Asakusa, Tait\u014d-ku, T\u014dky\u014d-to 111-0032<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb9uv3tz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Japanese version<\/strong>: None of our staff at this establishment speak foreign languages, so we refuse entry to all overseas people (kaigai no kata<\/em>)].<\/p>\n

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No “overseas people” could possibly speak Japanese to their staff, of course.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is, we featured Momosaku\u00a0on Debito.org back in April 2018<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Back then, the submitter pulled down that sign, and it was replaced a day later. \u00a0Clearly Momosaku’s managers don’t like foreigners, Covid or no Covid.<\/p>\n

Feel free to drop by and let them know how you feel about their “Japanese Only” sign. \u00a0Perhaps pull it down again. \u00a0Debito Arudou, Ph.D.<\/p>\n

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Let me open the year inauspiciously with a post about new “Japanese Only” signs. The first one is from a store called “Suzuya Buyou Kodougu” (Suzuya Traditional Dance Props) in Asakusa Kouen Nishisandou.<\/p>\n

Sign: “Foreign customers are not allowed to enter the store to prevent the new corona virus (COVID-19) infection.”
\nSign: “Foreign tourists are not allowed to enter the store.”
\nStore: Entertainment Goods \u6d45\u8349\u516c\u5712\u897f\u53c2\u9053
\n\u6709\u9650\u4f1a\u793e\u3059\u305a\u3084\u821e\u8e0a\u5c0f\u9053\u5177\u5e97
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COMMENT: Feel free to contact Suzuya and tell them what you think about their sign, particularly since no foreign tourists (and very few foreign residents) are being allowed into Japan to spread Covid. Yet that doesn’t stop racist signs depicting foreigners already here (who like regular Japanese residents probably haven’t travelled abroad) as more infectious than Japanese from appearing on stores (again). \u00a0Because (again) there’s no law against racial discrimination in Japan stopping anyone from putting up a “Japanese Only” sign for any reason whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, also in Asakusa:
\nName: 100 (izakaya)\u00a0(Momosaku \u767e\u4f5c)
\nAddress: 4 Chome-7-12 Asakusa, Tait\u014d-ku, T\u014dky\u014d-to 111-0032
\nSign: “Japanese Only (in English), “None of our staff at this establishment speak foreign languages, so we refuse entry to all overseas people (kaigai no kata) (in Japanese)<\/p>\n

COMMENT: No “overseas people” could possibly speak Japanese to their staff, of course. But the funny thing is, we featured Momosaku\u00a0on Debito.org back in April 2018! \u00a0Back then, the submitter pulled down that sign, and it was replaced a day later. \u00a0Clearly Momosaku’s managers don’t like foreigners, Covid or no Covid. \u00a0Feel free to drop by and let them know how you feel about their “Japanese Only” sign. \u00a0Perhaps pull it down again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,54,28,43,36,34,20,5,11,55,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-only-signs","category-pinprick-protests","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-exclusionism","category-history","category-human-rights","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-tourism","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947","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=16947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16951,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions\/16951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}