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Originally Posted by MMM
Maybe it's a Kansai thing but "gaijin" is the term used for non-Japanese. There are two kinds of people that live in Japan: Nihonjin and gaijin. I think of both words on the same level. Some translate "gaijin" as "hairy barbarian" and that is just ignorant.
I am going to go out on a limb and guess that those offended by the word "gaijin" probably have a lot of other issues with Japan as well.
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I don't know if it means anything, but my girlfriend is from Akita and not Tokyo so might be a different situation there as they are not as mixed with foreigners