[sushiman]

" Japan has as high a whacko rate in their schools as "

Japan has a high whacko rate PERIOD ! I've been here 18 years ; I oughta know !

Racism is still rampant here . I would guess that 90% of Japanese wish that all the gaijins here would just disappear forthwith . The remaining 10% are mostly young women who are hip and aware and know the average Japanese man is a jerk , and long to meet their dream gaijin !

[aruanan]

Racism is still rampant here . I would guess that 90% of Japanese wish that all the gaijins here would just disappear forthwith .

Is it true that Japan-born Koreans who have been there for generations are not allowed to vote or are they simply ostracized socially?

[Tax-chick]

My Japanese teacher in college had married an American man in the 1950's. She warned us all about Japanese men, "If you ever go to Japan, don't fall for any of them; you'll regret it!"

[TruthNtegrity]

And beward that poor gaijin if he doesn't understand that ONE date with a Japanese girl means that she will chase him and hold onto him forever, hoping for a large American house with washing machine, dryer and no relatives living with them!

I saw, from the vantage point of a Navy base in Japan, how dangerous it was for any American to ever think of asking a Japanese girl out on a date. A guy from my company SAT with a Japanese girl at a Sailor's wedding to a Japanese girl, and this girl considered it to have been a date. She chased him while he lived in Japan, and when he returned stateside, she found a way to get herself to DC, "to study English". Yup - she got him - they married. He could never get away from her, although he had started dating other women when he had returned here. But then, Japanese girl shows up - end of dating other women, end of freedom - married within a year.

My problem was with Japanese men, who are frankly, disgusting in public, but especially in those tightly packed trains. If you've never seen those "pushers", who shove all the people on a platform onto a train, you are in for the experience of your life. Japanese men use it as an excuse to rub themselves against you - totally disgusting experience, and no way to get away from them.

[Cronos]

Interesting, the attitude about gaijin (foreigners), but they seem to have most of their commercials featuring blonde blue eyed lots like Beckham etc. Hmm, that's another interestin' thing, are they disdainful of all 'gaijin' equally, both white AND black?