{"id":2012,"date":"2009-03-25T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T14:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2011-09-10T05:35:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T20:35:13","slug":"the-definition-of-gaijin-according-to-tokyu-hands-nov-17-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"The definition of &#8220;Gaijin&#8221; according to Tokyu Hands Nov 17, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/HANDBOOKsemifinalcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/welcomestickers.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1704\" title=\"welcomesticker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/welcomesticker-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot; width=\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francajapan.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1705\" title=\"franca-color\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/franca-color-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Residents and Naturalized Citizens Association forming NGO\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/tshirts.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1701\" title=\"joshirtblack2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/joshirtblack2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot; width=\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#english\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1699\" title=\"japaneseonlyecover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/japaneseonlyecover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JAPANESE ONLY:  The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHi Blog. \u00a0Writing to you from Nagoya, had a lovely evening with Andrew, Michael, and John eating spicy tebasaki, and a great discussion with all manner of labor union activists at Nagoya University before that. \u00a0Next stop, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?page_id=1672\">documentary SOUR STRAWBERRIES showings tomorrow at Shiga University and Osaka at the Blarney Stone<\/a>. \u00a0Stop by and see this truly excellent movie, and snap up a DVD and a book (never had such a successful selling tour: \u00a0Nearly 50 DVDs, nearly 40 books!)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, let me do a quick one for tonight, with the definition of &#8220;gaijin&#8221; not according to me (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/publications.html#JOURNALISTIC\">a la my Japan Times columns<\/a>), but rather according to the marketplace. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a photo sent in by an alert shopper, from Tokyu Hands November 17, 2008:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/d30_3200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2011\" title=\"d30_3200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/d30_3200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/d30_3200.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/d30_3200-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very funny. \u00a0Note what makes a prototypical &#8220;gaijin&#8221; by Japanese marketing standards: \u00a0blue eyes, big nose, cleft chin, and outgoing manner. \u00a0Not to mention English-speaking. \u00a0Yep, we&#8217;re all like that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone for buying some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/chibikurosanbo.html\">bucked-tooth Lennon-glasses to portray Asians<\/a> in the same manner? \u00a0Naw, that would get you in trouble with the anti-defamation leagues overseas. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.francajapan.org\/index.php\/Main_Page\">Seems to me we need leagues like that over here&#8230;<\/a> \u00a0Arudou Debito in Nagoya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the definition of &#8220;gaijin&#8221; not according to me (a la my Japan Times columns), but rather according to the marketplace.  Here&#8217;s a photo sent in by an alert shopper, from Tokyu Hands November 17, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Note what makes a prototypical &#8220;gaijin&#8221; by Japanese marketing standards:  blue eyes, big nose, cleft chin, and outgoing manner.  Not to mention English-speaking.  Yep, we&#8217;re all like that.  Anyone for buying some bucked-tooth Lennon-glasses to portray Asians in the same manner?  Naw, that would get you in trouble with the anti-defamation leagues overseas.  Seems to me we need a league like that over here&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,36,22,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-business-practices","category-bad-social-science","category-cultural-issue","category-media","category-problematic-foreign-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}