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Originally Posted by poiuy12345
Most probably is gaijin add-on. And also only 60min course is offered for gaijin. Wonder if I keep being gaijin to myself and just speak jap would unlock more stuff… or if they will know and then kick out lol
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In the old days before the days of Abenomics, the rationale as I understood were much simpler. Can't remember where I read it and whether it was really true but the fuzoku industry took the whole racism took an extreme level and simplistically considered Japanese as clean and disease-free and gaijins as dirty and full of diseases. So the only shops that took gaijins were the shops that were desperate for business and locals would try and avoid shops that accepted gaijins. So that has to be a hefty gaijin tax to make up for loss of revenue on their local businesses.
Nowadays, with so much competition and opening of the economy, it is whatever that they can get away with and there is really no rationale for a gaijin tax anymore. But the remnants of racism still remains and most Japanese girls would not take black, indians, angmos. It is not a question of tax, but they would not just not do it. Size does matter, except the other way. And if you are asian-looking and can speak more than 2 mins Japanese, you can get away with trying Japanese-only shops.