An editorial entitled ‘Flyjin’ rather few took a look at a recent survey by Tokyo into proving that flyjin exist re-examining how information is delivered to foreigners. JT says: That survey seems to imply that many foreign residents did indeed become "flyjin," [...]. The survey, however, also confirms that the vast majority of foreigners in [...]
Tag Archives: gaijin
Japan Times’ wonky flyjin editorial, microagressive poll
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on May 8, 2012
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A false dichotomy
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on June 7, 2011
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Following the suggestion of crustpunker, let’s concentrate on what’s written a bit more than on who says it in this month’s Just Be Cause. Starting at the end, I see: Cooperate or be isolated. Cooperate here implies cooperation with the whitey (and honorary whitey – what is a suitable collective noun?) gaijin, or be isolated [...]
Mr Arudou’s psychotic English
Posted by Ken Y-N (aka Tepido Naruhodo) on September 7, 2010
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As I’ve never taught English in my life nor do I know much about teaching English in Japanese schools, I have to work on hearsay, but I suspect that Mr Arudou too is relying on just posters to his blog and cursory web searches for his Japan Times article on the JET program. I’ll skip [...]