mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<bcec2o$avj$1@news.Stanford.EDU>...
> Kaz <kaz@ivebeenframed.com> wrote:
> > mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<bccp8n$i8a$2@news.Stanford.EDU>...
>  
> >> 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. Japanese are extremely nervous
> > about people entering a house with shoes on, onto Tatami rooms or wood
> > floors. and unfortunately, Westerners are considered as typical people
> 
> I've seen Japanese do that at their own apartments. 

I guess those are your gaijin-wannabe stupid young Japanese friends.

> > who don't take off their shoes conventionally by the Japanese.
> 
> Sorry, that's what the security deposit covers.

Landlords always want to keep them without actually fixing.

> > Nevertheless, I think those who refuse to rent out their housings to
> > non-Japanese would be rarely seen in the outside of Tokyo region. The
> 
> Actually, they're quite common in Osaka.

Never heard of it.