Have you encountered discrimination or prejudices in Japan ?

[FireyRei]

Discrimination is rampant in Japan, in many forms you'd need a lot longer list for.

Many other less known examples, i.e. until a couple of years back non-Japanese students attending International schools were not allowed to enter Japanese universities, and now they are, EXCEPT Koreans.

Buraku, still exist and still goes on though quietly now.

Japanese companies refusing to pay foreign workers Medical insurance and Pensions even though required by law to pay.

How about plain ignorance? We all speak English didn't you know?

I interviewed a teacher for my school, he was very professional and a good choice, a native English speaker. But in the end rejected by my boss because he was half-Chinese.

I have a list a mile-long.

[Mike Cash]

Japanese companies refusing to pay foreign workers Medical insurance and Pensions even though required by law to pay.

Unfortunately, that can tend to happen quite a lot when foreign workers are hired as foreign workers (specificially to fill jobs Japanese won't do or, more common, to save money). When one of the prime reasons a particular job may be open to a foreigner is as a cost-cutting measure, it is only to be expected that they skimp on everything they can.

There is always the option of doing what I did: Get hired even though you're a foreigner and not just because you're a foreigner. It's harder to do, but in companies which will do it it probably never even enters their mind to handle the pay/benefits any differently than they do the Japanese employees.