"Rindler Sigurd" <srindler@da2.so-net.ne.jp> wrote in message news:<3eea8a6c$1_5@news.uncensored-news.com>...
> "Kaz" <kaz@ivebeenframed.com> wrote in message
> news:365fcc52.0306131800.5223623d@posting.google.com...
> > mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message
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> >
> > > think, but you will be discriminated against in terms of housing,
> >
> > Things about housing may not be racism. Japanese landlords are afraid
> > of if their housings for rent would be messed up by those non-Japanese
> > who don't know the Japanese life style....
> 
> 
> Very true, but...  I have seen where a deal was 99% completed until the
> Japanese lady had to present her ID card. It turned out that she was born
> and raised in Japan with Korean nationality. The appartment was then
> suddenly not available anymore. The estate agent doesn't usually mind since
> he wants his commission. In this case he was the landlord himself.
> Similar stories can be heard all over...
> Now it gets a bit easier since there are so many empty appartments in the
> area.

I think the Korean's case is different from other gaijin's case. 
Outspokenly speaking, Japanese landlords usually don't prefer to rent
out to Zainichi Koreans probably because:
1: They cook garlic so often and the Japanese are still not accustomed
to such smell in the air so other tenants will complain it.
2: They just want to avoid creating any sort of trouble between
Koreans who have some sort of extreme attitudes against the Japanese.

Incidentally, those who get refused to rent apartments are not only
foreigners or Zainichi Koreans but also those Japanese women who work
for such a entertainment business or hostess business. Because hours
they work and their life styles are often opposite from those of
ordinary folks, and her neighbor tenants often complain about her
making noise in the middle of nights.