John W. <worthj1970@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 10:59?am, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 22, 11:42?am, "Marvel" <mana...@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> > > "Declan Murphy" <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >
> > >news:55fd9191-4da4-48e4-bd74-6f1cf3415a74@v5g2000prm.googlegroups.com...
> > > On Jan 15, 9:32 am, Chris <chrisjanv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > <snip>> Don't hesitate to contact me should you be interested
> >
> > > > Christophe Janvier
> > > > 08035854047
> >
> > > >Which prefecture and city (etc) are you in?
> >
> > > Must be Timbuktu
> >
> > I figure whenever this kind of post drops in that the sender is in
> > Tokyo/Kanagawa/Saitama/Chiba. I haven't had time to crunch numbers,
> > but I'm fairly sure that once you take out the zainichi koreans,
> > chinese, and nikkei brazilians/peruvians, that something like 80% of
> > the remaining foreigners are based in Kanto. For North Merkins &
> > Europeans it may be higher. For Africans possibly higher still.

> There used to be a large number of Africans near Gochaku station in
> Himeji. They worked in the leather industries around there, and there
> was a large reggae bar with a mural of Bob Marley on the side. I don't
> know if the Africans are still around; seem to be a lot of southeast
> Asians around there nowadays.

My best friend in Japan was from the Ivory Coast; he and his wife were on 
Monbusho scholarships. I wonder what happened to him...

Mike