{"id":9366,"date":"2011-09-13T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2011-10-30T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T22:40:25","slug":"japan-times-have-your-say-column-offers-reader-feedback-to-my-aug-6-jbc-column-on-the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-foreigner-how-difficult-it-seems-to-make-long-term-japanese-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=9366","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times HAVE YOUR SAY Column offers reader feedback to my Aug 2 JBC column on “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Foreigner”, how difficult it seems to make long-term Japanese friends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hi Blog. Here are some comments from Japan Times readers regarding my August JUST BE CAUSE column, “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Foreigner”, how difficult it seems to make long-term Japanese friends. Good stuff within, as well as the prerequisite hate mail. A friend commented that I’d probably still get hate mail if I posted a cure for cancer! \ud83d\ude42 Have a read. Arudou Debito<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2011<\/strong><\/div>\n

The Japan Times<\/strong><\/p>\n

HAVE YOUR SAY<\/strong><\/div>\n

The loneliness \u2014 or otherwise \u2014 of the long-distance foreigner<\/h1>\n
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The Japan Times received a large number of readers’ emails in response to Debito Arudou’s Just Be Cause column published Aug. 2, headlined “The loneliness of the long-distance foreigner<\/a>.” Here, belatedly, are a selection.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The elephant in the room<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This topic is something of a elephant in the room for most foreigners I know, including myself. The number of close Japanese friends we have between us is close to zero \u2014 and not for want of trying on our part!…<\/em><\/p>\n

Rest at\u00a0http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20110913hs.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some comments from Japan Times readers regarding my August JUST BE CAUSE column, “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Foreigner”, how difficult it seems to make long-term Japanese friends. Good stuff within, as well as the prerequisite hate mail. A friend commented that I’d probably still get hate mail if I posted a cure for cancer! \ud83d\ude42 Have a read. http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20110913hs.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-cultural-issue","category-immigration-assimilation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366","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=9366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}