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Gaijin

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Gaijin
Japanese term used to describe a non-Japanese investor in Japan (outside person). A more polite version of the same word is gaikokujin which means outside country person.

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When my family and I moved to Japan 16 years ago, we were told--quite openly--by a real estate agent that the owner of an apartment we liked didn't want to rent to gaijin like us.
The tempura dishes he prepared for AC are, for the most part, those that he was trained to make, although he admits that nori rolls containing tempura were conceived by sushi chefs catering to gaijin tastes.
The visceral fear, dating back to Commodore Matthew Perry and his "black ships" that forcibly opened Japan 150 years ago, was that the gaijin, or foreigners, were gobbling up precious Japanese assets.
 
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