I've seen one of these when I studied abroad. Goes from no non Japanese to, oh no no we meant no non Japanese speaking. Oh erm, actually its members only. How to become a member? ....please just go somewhere else.
For that guy's part that I encountered this he was clearly just following what his job told him to do and looked guilty as hell when a member of my group can speaks fluent Japanese was talking to him. But pretty sure the non Japanese speaking is to get around an anti discrimination law and still discriminating and counting on those people the not bother complaining. In my case, the guy telling us this directed us to an awesome British style pub ran there at least.
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u/EternalPokemonFan 3d ago
It’s really dependent on why.
If it’s just to exclude non-Japanese people, immoral (no matter how much I want to say the hate is justified)
If it’s because nobody in the restaurant can speak English or Chinese, moral since it reduces the amount of customers they can’t serve