[Sangetsu]

Japan is my home too, but I'm a foreigner, and I always will be. No matter how well I speak the language, understand the culture, or even if I eventually become a permanent resident/citizen, I will still be a "gaikokujin". I can wear a yukata to a festival, eat anything on any menu in any restaurant, and even be admired for it, but that doesn't change what I am.

It amazes me how overboard some foreigners are to "becoming" Japanese. I find it hilarious when a Joe Johnson changes his name to Hiroshi Ogawa when he eventually gets PR.

Anyway, I like living here. I've been to other places around the world, so feeling like a foreigner is nothing new to me. I feel less out of place here than I did in Africa or Saudi Arabia.