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This is (as usual) pure selfish indulgence..I dont suppose everyone gets the opportunities this guy has had but then sometimes its about making your own..remora

Well, it looks like it's time for "sakoku" for them. Lock down the country. On the other hand, they wouldn't like to be cooped up in their own country. Perhaps Japan should send their tourist attractions a la deri-heru style--e.g. stuffed "characters" like Mt. Fuji and geisha and temples and what not.

Victoria and husband David recently exchanged hand-carved gold and silver Japanese talisman pendants to mark their tenth wedding anniversary next July.

She didn't speak Japanese as a native Japanese. She wasn't acting like a native Japanese. So, the cops never bothered to check with the immigration authorities. Instead they arrested her for not producing her "foreign passport", because they "couldn't imagine she might be a Japanese citizen".

There are a number of things foreigners must learn in order to live relatively comfortably in Japan. Bowing isn't one of them usually, but sometimes it's a must!

An American hasn't quite mastered the art of the vending machine coffee.

"APPRECIATION OF YEN AMENDS SALE
used only 10 percent discount
The foreigner discounts 10 percent with the cash register.
Please buy it in the all-time low.
It is when presentation of ID is nessary."

Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has decided not to impose limits on foreign equity ownership in Japanese airport companies, and will not discriminate between domestic and foreign ownership.

After seeing what Japanese corporations are willing to do in order to avoid foreign ownership, I really have to wonder about this.

the figure of 70% almost exactly corresponds with the one that I spotted once that said that 70% of Japanese had never met a gaijin nor had any intentions of wanting to ever have such a loathesome experience.

remora

Japan trying to get more gaijin into the country to spend there money.

Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev, who wrestled under the name Wakanoho is suing the Japan Sumo Association after they kicked him out for smoking marijuana.

This article is old but I found it interesting none the less.

The Japanese Nursing Association is doing more harm than good to the nation's health care as it steadfastly puts up barriers to nurses and care workers from other countries wishing to work in Japan. What's worse, the association is supported by the health ministry.

Japan and other industrially advanced countries today face an acute shortage of nurses and care workers. While most of these countries are endeavoring to "import" qualified medical staff from newly emerging nations, Japan is closing its doors to such workers from abroad.

Gaijinsmash.net has articles written by Az, an American that formerly worked under the JET program in Japan as an Assistant English Teacher. His articles started with summaries of his days at the school(hilarious stuff) to his current life and is on going. It use to be on Outpost Nine but moved here.

Pretty cool interview with a woman doing something a little different.