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Originally Posted by blimp
dear OP,
on the number of foreigners in tokyo: 386,000
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To be more accurate: The number of
registered foreign residents reached 386,000 as of October 1, 2007, some 1.4 times more than the total figure ten years earlier.
This does not include the thousands that fly in daily for work and pleasure and probably doesn't include the thousands of exchange students studying there.
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Originally Posted by Nokutetsu
The family I stayed with were telling me- yes, there is racisim. Not towards westerners so much- but to mostly Americans in general, and with good reason.
Americans (not all! But a lot) go to Japan thinking everything is Anime. They talk, act, and speak based on what they've seen in anime and it really offends them. Also, having not read up on the culture, they speak in ways that are acceptable in America, but not in Japan.
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You're Japanese host family really said this? I find that pretty hard to believe. The idea that Japanese like westerners, but are "racist" against Americans is the opposite of my experience. The racism you will find in Japan is by far more directed at other Asians (Korean and Chinese, and isn't one way) than it is at Westerners, especially Americans.
The truth is the number of Americans that ACTUALLY come to Japan who are anime-obsessed is by far the minority. I would guess less than 1%.
The opinion your host family holds sounds more like one of the anti-otaku fan members of this forum than an actual Japanese person. I think most of Japan isn't aware of the popularity of and existence of otaku in the west, and I am not sure why they would pick on Americans. There are otaku all over the western world.
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Originally Posted by zorminus
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I don't think anything. It is not scientific.