A little while back someone sent me a link to an interesting website. On it, they said you could rent a gaikokujin (foreign person) who will do various things for you, depending on the person. They could speak English with … [Read more...]
Note: I’ll use “gaijin” for the majority of the article. Not in a derogatory sense (I’m a gaijin too) because it’s much cleaner than “foreign student”. And of course, to highlight that foreigners for the most part are … [Read more...]
Have you heard about the crazy gaijin-related incident that happened today? I wouldn't be surprised if you have; it's getting a ton of media coverage at the moment. Rightly so, too, as this level of crazy deserves talking … [Read more...]
Now that I'm back from Hawaii, I finally had the chance to wade through all the emails I decided to ignore until now (sorry if that was you!). A decent number of them were people worried about racism in Japan; mainly, they … [Read more...]