[cstaylor]

Gaijin Tarento: Foreign TV personality, someone who is usually born in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. Other gaijin hate you.

I wouldn't say that... I like watching Seine's "Japanese please"... he seems pretty funny.

[kamome]

I don't know if this happens to expats in other countries, but those foreigners living in Japan tend to foster a unique attitude toward other foreigners. It's a mixed thing: We can use each other's support, yet we don't really want to see others of our kind taking away our glory and making us less a kind of pioneer. Two gaijin strangers will not sit next to each other on the train. Two gaijin strolling down a street in the same neighborhood will give each other the hairy eyeball: "What's he doing on my turf? This is my neighborhood! This chome isn't big enough for more than one gaijin!" Maybe it's the Japanese tendency to hold strangers at arm's length that rubs off on us. Maybe we think that it takes a rare and special breed of foreigner to live in Japan. We want to pat ourselves on the back because we know not many people on our home soil will put up with the nonsense that goes with the lifestyle. But the more foreigners appear, the less special the lifestyle gets.

I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but this applies to me. I tend to resent any other foreigner I see on the train, in Roppongi, and in my neighborhood. There is a sense of competition among veteran gaijin, presumably because we're a group that has carved out a niche for ourselves, usually with a lot of time and effort to learn Japanese and become a true "Japan hack".

However, if I meet someone and they seem cool, all that shit goes out the window. It's the gaijin a-holes that I resent (and they can be found mainly in Roppongi/Shibuya). The true FG's who are veterans themselves are pretty cool for the most part.

[Harvey]

I'm gonna be a Japan Hack! Dang it!

I really respect gaijin whom i meet who can actually speak the language though. That's freakin awesome.

[cstaylor]

Little did I know That I would be surrounding myself with a bunch of a**holes.

That'd made a good tag-line for FG.

[cstaylor]

...is where Rob gets those ties. Maybe I should wear one to my next lecture.

[cstaylor]

1. Shibuya - Tokyuu Hands

Those are quite some "hands".

[Harvey]

Dude, who *is* Robpongi? How long have you been in Japan? What did you originally go there to do? Do you have a day job? or does robpongi earn all the money you need?

freakin hilarious stuff though........ man.

[kamome]

Ok, that's it. I have decided that I want to meet the man himself, Rob Pongi. We obviously don't live too far apart. Rob, let me know where to meet, so I can make a candid report of my impressions to FG!

[Leochan]

:P

Thats what I hope to be too, but I'd settle for being an extra in a bukkake flick! Has anyone (GAIJIN) actually made it into the Japanese porn industry to date? My one hope is that I get to see Chocoball in person, that guy is a legend.

[kamome]

hats what I hope to be too, but I'd settle for being an extra in a bukkake flick!

My one hope is that I get to see Chocoball in person, that guy is a legend.

Come on, leo, you know you just want to be a fluffer for Chocoball. Or at least be the guy who cleans up the mess after he does the old bukkake on a chick.

[Harvey]

Hey Robpongi!

Hey, do you have a day job? You dont' actually earn money with your comedy.... do you? Have you ever been on Japanese TV? Maybe someday you'll be rich and famous. If you do, don't forget fuckedgaijin okay!?