Gaijin?
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 all that much of a decision. This was the right name. But why, when the word “gaijin” had less than savory origins, and some may still find it offensive? The literal meaning of gaijin (外人) is “outsider”, or, literally, “outside… Read More »Gaijin?