Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<3EDC9EE5.2050302@hotmail.com>...
> John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Well, quite. We're splitting hairs here. 
> 
> Absolutely. There are after all only two ethnic groups in the world, 
> nihonjin and gaigin, and kippers only confuse the issue.

This is nihonjin version; hiraki nishin(herring)
http://www.rakuten.co.jp/shibuya/466346/440169/

And here is gaigin version; kippers
http://www.kipper.co.uk/shop/system/index.html

But they don't look much different......