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Alien (Gaijin)

Posted on January 2, 2022 by bakatsundoku

There have been, and are, several reasons for this site.  But I think ultimately the reason I created and still write in this site is to help me work out stuff by writing, and I just so happen to do it publicly sometimes.  I need to do that now.  So,

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Gaijin

Posted on June 18, 2020 by bakatsundoku

I heard a story. This is a story that appeared on one of the Reddit subreddits that are dedicated to stories.  It could have been MaliciousCompliance, or ProRevenge.  I can’t remember.  It’s not important. Our protagonist was working at a Japanese company somewhere in California.  The managers there were Japanese

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Why I Could Never be Japanese

Posted on November 20, 2019 by bakatsundoku

A couple of weeks ago and a few posts ago, I wrote about a part of Japanese history and culture that really bothered me.  Nothing in it was unfactual to the best of my knowledge, though I was perhaps a little harsher than… No.  No I wasn’t.  That was a

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Uncategorized culture, foreigner, gaijin, Japan 3 Comments

It is time.

Posted on April 6, 2019 by bakatsundoku

It is a stormy day in Round Rock, Texas today. My Japanese teacher has decided that she now only wants to speak to the small group of people I learn with, in Japanese.  I don’t like this, but I think it may be necessary.  I’ve been feeling a little stuck

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Gaijin

Posted on December 28, 2018September 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I don’t have any tattoos.  In fact, I think tattoos are ugly and I would never intentionally get one.  Why one would intentionally blemish their skin like that is beyond me. (and if you disagree, then go ahead, but this is my opinion and I’m sticking to it). I haven’t

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Gaijin?

Posted on September 2, 2018September 6, 2021 by bakatsundoku

When I first created this blog, I had a nearly infinite choice of things to call it.  I could have called it, oh, I dunno…  “Musings on Japanese”, or “My Japanese Journey”, or a whole bunch of stuff.  But I settled on this one.  In fact, it really wasn’t even

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Japanese, Personal gaijin, japanese, meta, outsider Leave a comment

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