Tag: foreign living

• what’s in a name?

  If you don’t speak any Japanese, this blog’s name might just sound like a mashup of something “Japanese-sounding,” which is actually sort of correct. While not randomly chosen syllables, it’s a portmanteau of two words: gaijin and jinsei. Gaijin is actually already a bit of a contraction, because it’s the shortened version of gaikokujin, meaning…

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