Despite domestic constitutional provisions and international treaty promises, Japan has no law against racial discrimination. Consequently, businesses around Japan display "Japanese Only" signs, denying entry to all ''foreigners'' on sight. Employers and landlords routinely refuse jobs and apartments to foreign applicants. Japanese police racially profile ''foreign-looking'' bystanders for invasive questioning on the street. Legislators, administrators, and pundits portray foreigners as a national security threat and call for their segregation and expulsion. Nevertheless, Japan''s government and media claim there is no discrimination by race in Japan, therefore no laws are necessary. How does Japan resolve the cognitive dissonance of racial discrimination being unconstitutional yet not illegal? Embedded Racism carefully untangles Japanese society''s complex narrative on race by analyzing two mutually-supportive levels of national identity maintenance. Starting with case studies of hund
