Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!ken-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: Lotsa gaigins Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <1148278255.750072.135200@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <44719112$0$10976$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.16-1.2096_FC4 (i686)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 24 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 10:51:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 138.217.22.57 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1148295083 138.217.22.57 (Mon, 22 May 2006 20:51:23 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:51:23 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:163019 nf43 dixit: >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. When I was living in 荒川区, the 区役所 had signs up saying it had the greatest proportion of gaijin of all the 区 in Tokyo. Bugger-all Westerners, of course. They all hung out in places like Shibuya and Meguro. Our gaigin were almost all Chinese and Korean. -- 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