Declan Murphy and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>Eric Takabayashi wrote:
>> Ernest Schaal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Gifu has certain advantages: It is small enough to get around by bike, the
>>>main park is pretty, living is cheap, the scenery is pretty. On the other
>>>hand, there really aren't that many resources for Western gaijin. According
>>>to a list posted in the city hall, there are very few gaijin from
>>>English-speaking countries (only a couple of hundred in a city of 400,000
>>>people, most of which are either JETs or kaiwa instructors) and there are
>>>limited resources for Western gaijin.
>> 
>> Fukuyama has nearly 400,000 people, though not nearly as modern looking as Gifu
>> City.
>> 
>> I wonder if there are even 50 western foreign residents here.
>
>I dropped in to the city hall in Okazaki on Friday to update my gaigin
>card thingee. Two things caught my eye - one is a chart displayed near
>the entrance with the number of deaths/births and arrivals/departures.
>The population had jumped another 500 last month - births in Okazaki
>outnumbered deaths by 2:1 accounting for 220 of the increase. The rest
>was a net increase in internal migration. It seems to average 500 a
>month more or less. The other thing was that a fair bit of the increase
>was due to the spreading outbreak of gaijinitus, which has spread to
>include 2.8% of the 350,000 residents, with the number of Koreans as a
>percentage for alien registrations below 1 in 5 for the first time. How
>many of them are "westerners" isn't exactly clear.

I would venture a guess that Central and South American peoples would make up
the bulk of that. I certainly would hope they're not *all* Novabots.


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