Readers respond: Once a 'gaijin,' always a 'gaijin'? (The Japan Times)

18 August 2008, 2:12 pm

The Community Page received a large number of responses to Debito Arudou's last Just Be Cause column on the use of the word "gaijin." Following is a selection of readers' views. That Arudou and others dislike the word "gaijin" and would prefer its retirement, I can understand. What I cannot understand (and I doubt Arudou really believes it either) is the insistence that the word is also an ...... read more

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