Unseen JapanWith tourists flooding into Japan and taking advantage of the country's weak currency, some travel experts say it's time to jack up prices for visitors. Despite public support for the idea, some merchants say charging tourists separate prices would be "deceptive."
🦃 Kat Callahan 
🦃Whenever this comes up, my question always is--how do you keep merchants from applying it based on minority status and not based on residency? It's untenable in Japan because merchants are never going to ask for ID generally, which means making decisions based on phenotypical stereotypes.
I've had enough trouble with this with hotels, at least in the past. Recently this seems to have calmed down and I haven't been asked for a passport in the last few years.
But early in my time in Japan I'd have to argue with them. Once I even explicitly had to bring in the police to explain that asking a resident for passport or residency card is illegal.
TomatoGrilledCheese 
@jezebelkat @unseenjapan Japan once again being prejudice at best and their own brand of not seeing the bigger picture and can only think of today.