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Outside the Gaijin Bubble Pt. 1: Somewhere Between Immigration and Customs
Somewhere Between Immigration and Customs So, our last night in Brooklyn, amid a discussion that covered such crucial topics as my returning to Brooklyn, her moving abroad, living together vs marriage,...
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Outside the Gaijin Bubble Pt. 2: Spiritually and Otherwise
Check Out Part 1 HERE The thing about living in this gaijin bubble here in Japan is it doesn’t appear to exist in the real world. It feels virtual. And initially this virtual reality feeling lends...
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Preconceptions are Poisonous Pt: 1
I shared a video on LIY yesterday produced by a gentleman who goes by the name of Ken Tanaka. (Peep his Youtube Channel here) The video is in the process of going viral, hopefully, and I believe it to...
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Preconceptions are Poisonous Pt. 2
(Here’s Part 1) I’ve watched Ken Tanaka’s video now about half a dozen times. I heard it called a spoof, but that reduces it to a bit of clowning around at Japanese expense, doesn’t it? Perhaps the use...
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Somewhere Between India and China
As soon as I walked in the office, before I could even reach my desk, one of my colleagues (let’s call her Natsumi) rushes at me in a panic. “Loco-Sensei! Loco Sensei!!” In three years working together...
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Paradigm Shift or Merely Anomalous?
So, I’m leaving the school for the day and Michael, the Nepalese newbie, is out front, surrounded by a group of his Japanese classmates. It looks pretty confrontational so I move in to investigate. As...
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I Thought White People in Japan had it Pretty Easy! Pt.1
Ken Tanaka, the video producer whose praises were sung loudly here a couple of weeks ago (when I took time out to share my thoughts on a video he produced called: “But We’re Speaking Japanese” ) has...
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I Thought White People in Japan had it Pretty Easy! Pt. 2: The House Negroes...
Ken Tanaka’s video (Please check out Pt. 1 of this post HERE) suggested that white people have it pretty easy in Japan…at least those who are not imbeciles and cry racism at every misunderstanding do....
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