{"id":6864,"date":"2010-06-10T07:11:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2010-06-10T16:42:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T07:42:56","slug":"toyoko-inn-opens-exclusively-chinese-hotel-in-susukino-sapporo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=6864","title":{"rendered":"Toyoko Inn opens “exclusively Chinese” hotel in Susukino Sapporo, refuses Japanese and other NJ; media ignores questionable legality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Blog. \u00a0Dovetailing with the recent Debito.org posts showing China’s increasing domestic influence over Japan’s economics (here<\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a>), below we have some newspaper articles (Japanese, couldn’t find English anywhere) noting that Toyoko Inn has opened a new hotel complex in Sapporo Susukino that caters exclusively to Chinese. \u00a0The Nikkei and the Yomiuri call it “Chuugokujin sen’you hoteru<\/em>” below, smacking of the “Nihonjin Sen’you Ten<\/a><\/em>” wording used for signs in Russian excluding all foreigners entry from businesses in Monbetsu, Hokkaido<\/a> (i.e. only Chinese are allowed to stay in this hotel). \u00a0Local Doshin only mildly mentions they are “Chuugokujin muke<\/em>” (catering to Chinese).<\/p>\n

I’m pretty torn by this development. \u00a0On one hand, here is an unusually progressive business initiative in hiring and catering to NJ (with nary a mention of \u00a0all the “different culture resulting in the inevitable frictions” that was a undercurrent of much domestic reporting about, say, Australians investing in Niseko). \u00a0Supply and demand, you might say, who cares if the money is from Chinese. \u00a0Fine.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, however, we have the Balkanization of the hotel industry, with NJ being assigned their own special gated community (in violation of Japanese law; choosing customers by nationality is unlawful under the Hotel Management Law<\/a>), with again nary a question about the legality.<\/p>\n

And again, this is the Toyoko Inn, with its history of special policies for racial profiling and declining hotel rooms (or threatening to) to “foreigners”, including residents and naturalized citizens, who do not show their Gaijin Cards<\/a>. \u00a0Not to mention embezzling GOJ funds earmarked for handicapped facilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In short, I smell a rat. \u00a0Yet more opportunism and questionable legal practices by Toyoko Inn. \u00a0I’d recommend you not patronize them, but then again, unless you’re a Chinese reading this, you probably can’t stay at the hotel in question anyway. \u00a0 Arudou Debito in Sapporo<\/p>\n

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I called Toyoko Inn Susukino Minami at 011-551-1045 and got a very friendly female clerk. Our conversation went something like this:<\/p>\n

“Hi there. I heard about your place in the newspaper. Just wanted to ask: Does your hotel accept only Chinese guests?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“That’s correct. Only Chinese.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“You mean Japanese customers are refused too?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“That’s right.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“And all other foreigners other than Chinese are not allowed to stay?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“That’s right.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Er, isn’t that against the Hotel Management Law?”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Yes, it probably is.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

We started laughing, and I said, “This is the first hotel I’ve heard of in Japan where even Japanese guests are refused.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Yes, quite. It’s a funny situation, isn’t it.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I appreciated the candor, but the question still remains: What the hell is going on, and why is nobody calling Toyoko Inn on the unlawfulness of the situation? Instead, we have newspapers promoting them as such without any analysis?<\/p>\n

What a bent hotel chain the Toyoko Inn Group is.
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Dovetailing with the recent Debito.org posts showing China’s increasing domestic influence over Japan’s economics (here and here), below we have some newspaper articles (Japanese, couldn’t find English anywhere) noting that Toyoko Inn has opened a new hotel complex in Sapporo Susukino that caters exclusively to Chinese. The Nikkei and the Yomiuri call it “Chuugokujin sen’you hoteru” below, smacking of the “Nihonjin Sen’you Ten” wording used for signs in Russian excluding all foreigners entry from businesses in Monbetsu, Hokkaido (i.e. only Chinese are allowed to stay in this hotel). Local Doshin only mildly mentions they are “Chuugokujin muke” (catering to Chinese).<\/p>\n

I’m pretty torn by this development. On one hand, here is an unusually progressive business initiative in hiring and catering to NJ (with nary a mention of all the “different culture resulting in the inevitable frictions” that was a undercurrent of much domestic reporting about, say, Australians investing in Niseko). Supply and demand, you might say, who cares if the money is from Chinese. Fine.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, however, we have the Balkanization of the hotel industry, with NJ being assigned their own special gated community (in violation of Japanese law; choosing customers by nationality is unlawful under the Hotel Management Law), with again nary a question about the legality.<\/p>\n

And again, this is the Toyoko Inn, with its history of special policies for racial profiling and declining hotel rooms (or threatening to) to “foreigners”, including residents and naturalized citizens, who do not show their Gaijin Cards. Not to mention embezzling GOJ funds earmarked for handicapped facilities.<\/p>\n

In short, I smell a rat. Yet more opportunism and questionable legal practices by Toyoko Inn. I’d recommend you not patronize them, but then again, unless you’re a Chinese reading this, you probably can’t stay at the hotel in question anyway.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Called Toyoko Inn. Yes, they accept only Chinese guests. All other NJ and Japanese (yes, Japanese) are refused lodging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,13,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-business-practices","category-exclusionism","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment","category-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","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=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}