[gaijin]

Japan's attitude to foreign workers is the opposite of the USA, and substantially different compared even to some pretty conservative regions of Asia.

A lot of the breathless, "We're now importing many, many foreigners...!"-type articles in Japan are manufactured with a foreign readership in mind.

It used to be the case in the era of the high yen that you could see on every major Tokyo sidewalk corner pockets of Iranian illegals, that were tolerated for a time. In Harajuku, Ueno, and Shinjuku, there were THOUSANDS of them.

They got rid of ALL of 'em.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Where'd they go ?

[Asclepius]

They got rid of ALL of 'em.

I hope they sent them here where they belong.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sounds good. I only wish that we over here could do the same.