{"id":1882,"date":"2008-08-27T02:22:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T17:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2008-10-09T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T11:48:30","slug":"letsjapan-blog-on-new-saitama-pref-stickers-for-nj-friendly-realtors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"LetsJapan Blog on new Saitama Pref stickers for NJ-friendly realtors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/welcomestickers.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1704\" title=\"welcomesticker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/welcomesticker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francajapan.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1705\" title=\"franca-color\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/franca-color-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens Association forming NGO\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/tshirts.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1701\" title=\"joshirtblack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"japaneseonlyecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/japaneseonlyecover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. \u00a0Have a look at this. \u00a0This is long overdue indeed! \u00a0Well done Saitama Prefecture! \u00a0Debito<\/p>\n<h2><a title=\"Permanent Link: Foreigner Friendlier Area\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.letsjapan.markmode.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/25\/foreigner-friendlier-area\/\">Foreigner Friendlier Area<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"postmetadata\">Monday, August 25th, 2008 |\u00a0<a rel=\"trackback\" href=\"http:\/\/www.letsjapan.markmode.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/25\/foreigner-friendlier-area\/trackback\/\">Trackback<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"postmetadata\">Courtesy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.letsjapan.markmode.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/25\/foreigner-friendlier-area\/\">http:\/\/www.letsjapan.markmode.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/25\/foreigner-friendlier-area\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entrytext\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letsjapan.markmode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multicultural-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Saitama multicultural real estate agents logo\" hspace=\"8\" align=\"left\" \/>Multicultural real estate agents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To make renting an apartment easier for non-Japanese, and deal with discrimination by apartment landlords and owners, one prefecture in Japan is sponsoring an effort to establish a database of &#8220;multicultural&#8221; real estate agents.<\/p>\n<p>The government of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.saitama.lg.jp\/index_e.html\">Saitama\u00a0<\/a>Prefecture began it\u2019s effort in 2006. There are now 113 multicultural real estate agents registered. Saitama is located 23 kilometers north of of Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Information pamphlets in Chinese, English, Portuguese and Spanish are available, and telephone interpretation is offered by volunteers. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pref.saitama.lg.jp\/A12\/BF00\/lib\/kurashikata%20EN%20.pdf\">English .pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.letsjapan.markmode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/multicultural-saitama.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Saitama multicultural apartment help\" width=\"560\" height=\"456\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/dy\/national\/20080816TDY17003.htm\">Daily Yomiuri reports<\/a>\u00a0the project has become widely known among foreigners by word of mouth.<\/p>\n<p>Phone numbers and addresses of the participating agents are included in the list. Lets Japan viewed 42 websites listed in the multicultural real estate registry, and found the logo displayed on only three sites:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roomspot.net\/system\/trouble.html\">Roomspot<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www15.plala.or.jp\/risouhouse\/\">Risouhouse<\/a>;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saihokujisho.com\/\">Saihokujisho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=922\">Ryan Hagglund on how he successfully dealt with an exclusionary landlord<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=723\">\u201cNo Foreigners\u201d realtor in Osaka\u2013according to its catalog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Photos of places in Japan which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/roguesgallery.html\">exclude or restrict non-Japanese customers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/virgomonkey.wordpress.com\/2005\/02\/17\/japan-beginning-to-ban-foreigners-from-public-places\/\">Waging a War on Anti-Americanism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/welcomestickers.html\">Welcome non-Japanese customers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingjapan.net\/eng\/rent_guide\/\">Renting Guide &#8211; Intro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To make renting an apartment easier for non-Japanese, and deal with discrimination by apartment landlords and owners, one prefecture in Japan is sponsoring an effort to establish a database of &#8220;multicultural&#8221; real estate agents.<\/p>\n<p>The government of Saitama Prefecture began it\u2019s effort in 2006. There are now 113 multicultural real estate agents registered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-discrimination-templates","category-good-news","category-human-rights","category-japanese-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","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=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}