Visible Minorities: Racial Profiling at Japanese Hotel Check-Ins shingetsunewsagency.com

Given the tourism boom and hosted international sports events, racial profiling and discrimination have become widespread in Japan’s hoteling industry.
This is particularly insidious because it’s not just the occasional bigoted landlord calling the shots; this time it’s the Japanese police.
But here’s where hotel practices get racialized: Some require “all foreign guests,” regardless of residency, to display ID.
I’ve been following this issue since 2005, when I encountered my first hotel ID checkpoint while attending a conference.
So here’s the bottom line: If you live in Japan with a Japanese address, you check in like any other Japanese citizen.