Has anyone experienced racism in Japan?

I usually end up with no one sitting next to me on the train, and many people don't bother to try and pay attention to me when I'm speaking Japanese. Oh yeah, and I was told that there are many landlords who refuse to rent to foreign people, even though my wife is Japanese when we were looking for a place to live a few years back.

No, not me, I spent over 4 years in Japan, if anything I was actually mistaken as a Japanese back then.

I'm sometimes mistaken as Japanese, since I'm Asian, so I blend in if I don't want anyone to bother me.

But, when they realize I'm not Japanese, they treat me like any foreigner. I was at the JR Fukuoka Station, needing to change my shinkansen train ticket to a different time and arrival city. When I asked the lady if she spoke English, she told me "None at all." Then I spoke in Japanese. My Japanese isn't great, but I know it's enough for a Japanese person to understand. I could tell that she was EXTREMELY annoyed that I was a foreigner trying to speak Japanese, b/c she wasn't trying to understand me.

She literally gave me blank stares for various 5-10 seconds, as if I was speaking in English. But I wasn't! I kept going on that I just needed to change the time and arrival city on my ticket. It was weird b/c I think she wanted me to simply leave the ticket counter and go on my way, since she wasn't trying to help me. But it was obvious that I wasn't leaving, so after trying to explain in more detail what I needed, she finally decided to help me after about 4-5 minutes of blank stares.

She did change my ticket, which was good. BUT, when I asked to get a window seat, she didn't respond to me. I asked twice while she was clicking on the mouse and typing into the computer, but she DID NOT respond. She then handed me my new tickets, and they were window seats. I was glad, but she could've just said, "Yes" or "OK, I'll try to give you the window seat." But she didn't!!

This was my first time I was treated like such as outsider in Japan, already living in Japan for over 3 years by this point.

And actually the next day, I took a bus from Fukuoka to Nagasaki. I bought my tickets online, paid via CC. I got onto the bus OK, but when I was attempting to leave the bus when it arrived in Nagasaki, I was held up b/c I didn't have a paper ticket. He grabbed my backpack or arm, I don't remember, preventing me from leaving. I didn't know you needed to give them the ticket upon leaving the bus, but my name and reservation was already on their clipboard list when I got on, so I thought I didn't need it.

He was like "Money, money. Pay money." I told him I paid on the internet, but he didn't believe me. My receipt was on my phone, so I had to show him that. BUT, it was ridiculous. He told me to stand on the side to get out my email, and the rest of the people getting off of the bus behind me were passing me with "annoyed" stares, since I was holding up the line.

After I showed him my receipt in my email, he let me get off the bus. He didn't apologize or say anything to be sorry. I was a bit surprised at how he treated me. I know he wouldn't have done that to a Japanese person, for sure. Or at least said "Sorry" at the end.

I'm not going back to Fukuoka ever again, but maybe it's a kyuushuu thing, b/c not many foreigners go there as much. I'm treated fine in Kyoto, where I live.

As a side note, some of my foreigner friends are treated similarly all around Japan if they're an obvious foreigner. My friend (who is white btw) and passed the JLPT N1, said she went to a store and spoke Japanese, and the person there simply ignored her.

Most of the time, foreigners are treated normally, but it's these few people who treat us differently, that make our experiences in Japan a negative one. Also, although much of the world say Japanese are very polite, it's not exactly true. "Silence" (or not doing anything) and "passive-aggressiveness" is the personality of Japanese people overall. Things are not spoken aloud when they need to be or things are not done when they should be. It's no wonder that when bullying occurs in schools, teachers or schools don't do anything about it until it's too late with death or suicide.

Not one Japanese person has ever held the door for me when entering a store or public place, even if I'm right behind them. They'll literally open it for only themselves, and then let the door slam into my face. So don't expect Japanese people to hold the door for you anywhere in Japan.

Even with these experiences, I still like Japan! It's just a society thing, but most Japanese people are good people overall. They just don't want to bother doing things that are human or common sense sometimes.

they beat me up because i made kung fu noises at them.