NAGOYA Refusing membership to a golf club because a person was not born with Japanese nationality constitutes racial discrimination, the Nagoya High Court ruled.
YOKKAICHI, Mie Prefecture A naturalized Japanese citizen expressed outrage after a court rejected his lawsuit against a golf club that refused his membership because he was not born Japanese.
A representative of the Aigi Country Club, an exclusive golf club in Gifu Prefecture. Despite being a naturalized Japanese, a man born to ethnic Korean parents was refused membership to the club on the grounds that its quota for non-Japanese was full.
Despite being a naturalized Japanese, a man born to ethnic Korean parents was refused membership to an exclusive golf club in Gifu Prefecture on grounds its quota for non-Japanese was full.