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kenji@tom.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake) writes:

>In article <INAGAKI.92Sep18183727@aclab1.resrch.anritsu.co.jp> inagaki@aclab1.resrch.anritsu.co.jp (Shintaro Inagaki) writes:
> |There is no justice involved in credit cards.
> |Credit card is a business, an economic activity;
> |[rest deleted]

>I accept it's not a matter of justice or injustice.

>I think, however, that moral/social questions remain. Isn't it unfair
>to restrict issueing credit cards just because the applicant is a
>non-native resident?  If it is fair, why? :)

Perhaps, but credit cards are *NOT* restricted just because the
applicant is a non-native resident, only to *certain* non-native
residents. I don't find this particularly unusual; credit cards
aren't issued/restriced to all native residents, why woull you
expect them to be issued/restricte to all non-native residents? 

IMHO a lot of the confusion is because the requirements for
establishing credit of any kind according to local custom and this
may not be the same as in a non-native's home country. "To get along
you have to go along," and Japan isn't any exception.  If you want a
credit card, find out what it takes from somebody who has been
successful in getting one and do likewise. 

Dave

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