Have you encountered discrimination or prejudices in Japan ?

[Reyter]

No, because I was trying to clarify what you were saying, and I asked "are you really that delusional," because frankly, if you really did think that foreigners should revolt over the mandatory ID, I would think you were delusional.

Well excuse my poor English but i would have thought the question should have been put forward like this: "Are you delusional?" and I believe that may or may not be considered insulting. If you keep a civil tone, as will I and thus, its of no importance!

I think there's a matter of decorum that is important when you deal with these kinds of situations in Japan. Like it or not, you are viewed as a guest, and being visibly foreign will make you a target for discrimination both benign and tiresome. When you're stopped by the police, most of the time they are just doing their job and enforcing the law as they see it.

I act like a guest here and dont mind it at all. For example, I dont engage in political activities becasue i feel its not my place to even try and impose my political views on Japanese people. That all fine.

You really believe they are only enforcing the law as they see it? To randomly stop people with different color skin from the native people, demand to see and record the rather specific details on their I.D. and to question them is merely "doing their job as they see it" and merely doing that because the people are seen as guests????

I'm sorry, but I cant agree with that at all. It may have been the case in the late 1930s and early 40s. I beleive to prevent this sort of abuse and harrassment is the reason why the subsections in question were added to the law. and BTW; thats not how most people, Japnese or otherwise, treat guests at all.....

they still probably know the law much better than you.

If your earlier statement is true, abot them only enforcing the law as they see it, i think remembering how to read hiragana must be a tremendous drain on their powers of comprehension. I doubt they know much about the law at all.

9 times out of 10, compliance is completely harmless, and you can just chalk it up to the experience of living as a foreigner in Japan .

I dont like being pulled up by the police like I am a criminal simply because I have white skin. I will never just accept that and if it ever happens again I will follow the steps I ahve outlined a few times.

As to the other guys, I understand tempers are high, and Reyter has been rather stubborn and belligerent himself, but that's no reason to stoop so low as to respond in kind. Let's try to be civil, or simply stop responding to him, it only fans the flames.

I take it that means you have had a look through the thread to see who started spitting insults at me first.
BTW: I have stopped responding to them but unfortunately I cant stop them replying to this message or earlier messages.