Japanese stores offering foreigner-only discounts

Tue, 01/10/2012 - 12:28 — Anonymous Show map at bottom of page In the
latest in a very long line of moves designed to encourage overseas tourists
to return to Japan post-March 11, several major retailers have decided to
offer discounts to shoppers based on the color of their passports. According
to today's Nikkei newspaper, department-store giant Isetan Mitsukoshi is
knocking off 5 percent at the register for shoppers from "China, Taiwan and
other foreign markets." Oddly, said folk have to hold one of a selection of
credit cards from their home countries, but must pay cash in Japan, as their
cards won't work when they're overseas anyway.read more