Japanese Autoworkers In China Subject To Open Discrimination

Honda Motor Co. employees in the Chinese city of Wuhan need only visit the popular Feng Bo Zhuang restaurant to see the resentment their company faces. A sign at the door says Japanese are barred from entering.

Discrimination against Japanese is common in China, according to Yasuhide Mizuno, the head of Honda’s venture in Wuhan, some 500 miles (800 kilometers) up the Yangtze River from Shanghai. Mizuno -- who has also been assigned to Thailand, Taiwan, Malaysia and Australia -- says he’s never worked in a more hostile place.

“Wherever I go, like department stores or in taxis, people ask me whether I am Japanese,” Mizuno, 49, president of Dongfeng Honda said in an interview at the Shanghai auto show. When he says yes, he said, the reception can be frosty.

 

HughJass - 4/24/2013 7:38:01 PM

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Asians openly discriminate against anyone they don't like, we just don't see it here because they're not the majority. Equality and human rights seems to be a modern white thing.

Mustang953 - 4/24/2013 10:23:11 PM

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Perhaps you should read a little history, concerning the Japanese and World War 2. I realize it isn't PC to actually tell the truth anymore, but they raped and murdered millions of Chinese, and exported Chinese women to Japan, and other Japanese military strongholds, as sex slaves. Equality and human rights...perhaps you talk to the Japanese about that.