[Farang]

Gaijin a racist word? Hmm, I guess that really depends on quite a few things.

I've lived in Kurume for almost 2 years, not exactly all the time, but within 3 years of time, so... anyways, people here quite freguently use word GAIJIN to refer to foreigners, I've personally NEVER seen GAIKOKUJIN written anywhere outside the ward office. Even my girlfrriend, her family, I, my friends, my gaijin friends, my girlfriends english teacher, my japanese teacher etc. refer to foreigners as GAIJIN, so... I don't know.

But then again, there aren't that many foreigners down here. Atleast not western, we've got plenty of Koreans, Philippino and Chinese here...