You mean Japan favoring their own people?
Only in the west is this an unthinkable offense.
And before you point out that this was a Korean man uncovering this... I lived in south Korea for years and speak the language myself. They absolutely do this in their own ways. Not the restaurant thing but, for example, foreign tech companies like apple canot own their own brick and mortor stores. To get any apple products in South Korea, a consumer must go through a 3rd party local retailer who apple MUST sell through in order to be allowed to sell their stuff in the country at all. Those locals then get to upcharge apple for the privilege, thereby making it function as an indirect tariff on apple products too.
Only the west cares so little for their own local businesses as to NOT do this when everyone else does. When everyone else does it but we don't, it is just a constant bleed. WE pay taxes on our market share abroad but THEY get to trade for our money for naught but the cost of shipping.
And let's not even include the "made in Europe" products that are actually made in foreigner sweatshops (like the north Korean labor factories... Yes, that is a thing and I know of one in italy) but on European soil.
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