The Japanese are far too polite to say it out loud. But every foreigner knows, deep in his heart, that he fails to measure up to Japan's dauntingly high standards of personal hygiene. In short, gaijin (foreigners) smell bad. So imagine the disappointment of one poor white man on being denied entry to a public bath on Hokkaido, the most northerly of Japan's four main islands. Foreigners, said the proprietor flatly, were not welcome.
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