Court says city not remiss for letting bathhouse bar foreigners

Court says city not remiss for letting bathhouse bar foreigners

SAPPORO, Japan - David Aldwinckle, a U.S.-born local resident who is now a naturalized Japanese with the name of Debito Arudou, speaks to reporters in Sapporo on Sept. 16 after the Sapporo High Court rejected an appeal by Arudou and two foreign nationals seeking compensation from the Otaru city government for failing to stop a bathhouse under its jurisdiction ban from turning foreigners away.

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