Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson wrote:

> The "gaigin don't get credit cards" line is a myth - it's "people with
> no credit history don't get CCs".

I don't quite know why, but after a spendthrift carefree 40 years of life I
came to Japan with virtually no savings and never having had a credit card
and got a Saison card within a few months. I think it's my face. I got a
Tobu department store card, too - they offered it to me, I didn't ask - and
recommended it to a friend (French) who got told flatly, "Sorry, no
gaiydzjins".

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John
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