Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!news1.optus.net.au!optus!newsfeeder.syd.optusnet.com.au!news.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:23:20 +1000 From: nf43 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Lotsa gaigins References: <1148278255.750072.135200@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1148278255.750072.135200@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> X-No-Archive: Yes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 14 Message-ID: <44719112$0$10976$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.237.73.190 X-Trace: 1148293394 10976 220.237.73.190 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:163018 Declan Murphy wrote: > Received some interesting data (updated to May 1st 2006) from the City > Hall late last week that was pretty interesting (for me at least). My > city has nearly double the number of gaigins as a percentage of the > population, but they are for the most part pretty invisible. It is amazing how small the proportion of western people is in any municipality. It usually turns out to be only 10% or so of the total foreign population. Even for a highly gaijinised municipality, when you look at the details, most of the foreigners turn out to be Asian or people with Japanese ancestry.