Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.moat.net!in.100proofnews.com!in.100proofnews.com!news.cse.sc.edu!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: Japanese study... Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan References: <4338dd87$0$6771$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1128045377.068822.33120@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <433cb4dc$0$11682$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1128066450.616389.253460@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <433dddd6$0$21568$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1128132539.966681.302670@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.18-27.7.x (i686)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 10:15:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.21.83 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1128248136 138.217.21.83 (Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:15:36 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:15:36 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:29816 Apud John W. (fj.life.in-japan) hoc legimus: >One reason I'm not a fan of Tokyo is that when I first went to Japan 13 >years ago I found the foreign popluation of Tokyo stuck up and >distinctly rude, whereas outside of Tokyo it was very easy to strike up >a conversation with someone and learn about places to visit, work, >live, etc. That's what I liked about living in 荒川区. While there are a lot of forners (about 15% of the population), they're almost all Chinese and Koreans. We palefaces were few and far between, and shopkeepers were happy to chat in Japanese. My only 英語じゃない experiences were when I ventured into those strange southern gaigin-infested parts like Roppongi and Meguro. It was always a relief to flee back to my 下町 comfort zone. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia ジム・ブリーン@モナシュ大学