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This thread makes me want to take my camera out with me. I've been here six years now and am perhaps taking for granted the super bikes and (ace mamacharis for the lady).
One thing I don't get though is foreigners getting all hot under the collar about the term gaijin. Literally, it means outside person and is a short version of the more correct gaikokujin (outside country person). It doesn't mean dirty at all, although it can be used negatively in the same way , I suppose, as "bloody foreigner". However, it doesn't necessarily mean it is offensive at all.
Ditto the Japan racism thing. Foreigners here, often who speak not a word of Japanese, love to bang on about how racist the locals are while moaning incessantly about the Japanese and how they won't let you enter their culture. It would be more weird if there wasn't any racism, surely?