"I don't like black people! Shoo!"
This is what Steve McGowan, an African-American resident of Kansai for nearly a decade, alleges was said to him last October at a nearby eyeglass shop.
A past customer (he had accompanied his Japanese wife purchasing her glasses there), McGowan had been impressed enough to bring along a South African friend as a potential customer.
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