"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
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> Because of the above most Japanese don't really have much reason to
consider
> themselves
> "Oriental" much less "Asian". When one says "Asian" in Japan everyone
thinks
> of the
> Asian Mainland, the Tairiku.

Actually, I would say that アジアン now has more of a connotation of
Southeast Asia. Go to a furniture store and ask for something in アジアンテ
イスト. They'll likely trundle out some rattan or the like.

I saw one of those Minomonta television programs not too long ago, in which
a woman told a remodeler that she wanted her living room redone in "Ajian"
style. She was picturing Bali and Malaysia, but the decorator did up the
room like the inside of a Chinese restaurant. The underlying message I took
from this is that the definition of "Ajia" is shifting in Japan.

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Ryan Ginstrom
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