Life In Japan

Why Do You Hate All the Best Parts of Being a Gaijin in Japan?

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「すべての戦爭は內戦である。なぜならば、人類はみな仲間である。」 ランソワ・フェネロン “All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” – Francois Fenelon File this one under “Life in Japan”. And subtitle it: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Gaijin Pass and Why You Should To. Some years ago now, I seem to remember watching a heavily edited version of…

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The Gaijin TV Exclusion Paradox

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Nikolai sayeth: My friends/coworkers even get mad at me at work too when I change the TV to a Japanese channel, and not stupid AFN (Armed Forces Network or something, basically USA channels wherever there is a base). I get this a lot, too and I’ve never understood it. The active hostility one often sees among gaijin…

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Anime Wit

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That’s right. Even Japanese people have a hard time understanding what anime characters say because it’s such a foreign language to them. They have to take a special course in school called “anime language” which helps them understand it, just a bit. Even then, most Japanese people can only understand about 70% of the words…

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Life As A Casting Project

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Sometimes, it seems that people aren’t as nice to us as they could be. It seems that they aren’t excited as they could or should be when we speak their language. It happens. Move on. There are literally millions of alternatives. We don’t really judge any group of people fairly. Almost all our judgments about…

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