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Chiaki> 	But this landlady is excessive, isn't she?  I mean I can
Chiaki> certainly understand that "we shouldn't speak in loud voices" after
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In fact, I cannot understand it too. This clause was not included in the
contract of other tenants, I think. And could you tell what is the
concept "Speak in loud voice"? How many dB would be ??? :-)

Chiaki> My guess for the best remedy is that there is a japanese legal
Chiaki> counselor's office to weed out this kind of blutant racism. You may
Chiaki> want to contact them via your Japanese colleagues or your Japanese
Chiaki> friend.  The counselor's office, I have in mind is "$@?M8"MJ8n0Q0w2q(J
Chiaki> ".(committee for protection of basic human rights.)  They may advise
Chiaki> you to have a deep discussion to get you off hook from this awful
Chiaki> document. Your company seems to be pretty big, and you may even get a
Chiaki> hint or two about this from the company's $@AmL3It(J or legal dept.

In fact, my company rented the apartment and said few days before about
those clauses... They said to don't take it in care. If I knew about it
before, I never would go there. This in another matter, but japanese 
"sometimes" don't take contract seriously as westerners, probably this
was the reason that landlady (or real estate agent) included such kind
of clauses.
It's very interesting to know there's some comitee for Human Rights
in Japan. 3 years ago, I had the same problem (Rent an apartment) and
I had a lot of trouble. Some real real estate were *REALLY* nasty. 
I thought to prosecute one, but some friend of mine said "RACISM is
not illegal" in japan. Is that true? I asked a Korean-japanese friend
of mine and he said that was true... 

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