How many japanese people do you know?

SajberJohan · 22 Oct 2004

Personally I don't know any, there aren't many asian people in my city, and the ones who are here almost only hangs with other asians from the same country Ah well, guess we swedish people are kinda scary with our vikinghorns 'n' stuff ^^

But what are asian/japanese people like where you live?

chiefen · 22 Oct 2004

SajberJohan said:
Personally I don't know any, there aren't many asian people in my city, and the ones who are here almost only hangs with other asians from the same country Ah well, guess we swedish people are kinda scary with our vikinghorns 'n' stuff ^^

But what are asian/japanese people like where you live?

Var bor du nﾃ･nstans?

And for all of you who doesn't speak Swedish, I was just asking him where he lives.

BlaqJap · 22 Oct 2004

I really don't know any where I live. I know there are more in North Jersey but not here. ~sigh~ I wish I saw some more. It would kinda make me feel like I was in Japan in a little bit... ^^

kirei_na_me · 22 Oct 2004

I know a lot. I can't even estimate. Since my husband is Japanese and works for a Japanese company, I come into contact with many Japanese people. His co-workers, of course, people who visit the company from Japan, people we meet at various Japanese 'mixers', his secretary through whom I've met many Japanese women married to American men...etc. etc.

It's very surprising that in a small rural town in the southeastern U.S., I'd find all kinds of Japanese people!

BamaFan2989 · 22 Oct 2004

hey kirei_na_me where are you from? i live in the southeast too!!! ^^ i don't know many though, not where i live, but my friend went to japan and came back, so i talk to a couple of friends he made over there, also i saw this penpal website so i talk to a few of them, but here where i live no japanese people. i know a vietnamese person, some other asians, but no japanese or chinese people ^^

MikeM · 22 Oct 2004

only this one Japanese girl. there are about 3 Japanese people in my school, and she's the only one born in Japan, I believe. she sorta got me into the language.

joel.lindgren · 22 Oct 2004

I've went to school with people from Sri Lanka, China and Thailand but no Japanese. There aren't many Jap people in Sweden (except exchange students here for a brief period of time)

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chiefen said:
Var bor du nﾃ･nstans?
And for all of you who doesn't speak Swedish, I was just asking him where he lives.

Heh. yeah, and if you're gonna put in a little Swedish lesson you'd want to do it correctly. "Nﾃ･nstans" ^_^

TwistedMac · 22 Oct 2004

joel.lindgren said:
Jap people

OOF! "Jap" is considered a derogatory term for the japanese...

if you want to abreviate "japanese", use "Jp", less people are insulted that way.

jieshi · 22 Oct 2004

lol well where I live is the whitest part of Australia. We are talking only a few hundred asian families. but if you drive 20 mins into the city there are so many because Australia is a very multicultural society.

Okay japanese people I know, 5.

Keiichi · 22 Oct 2004

University of Hawaii has a lot of Japanese students (well, Hawaii in general has a lot of local and native Japanese people ), though I've talked to many of them, I only know a few a bit more closely. A lot of them are exchange/abroad students.

Keiichi

RockLee · 22 Oct 2004

I have a few Japanese friends I know..but from internet.But I'm going to see them in 1,5 months In my Japanese class there is a chinese boy and girl...don't know any other asian ppl living here(yet) ☝

blade_bltz · 22 Oct 2004

Family in Hiroshima and all over California, friends from Nagoya and Sapporo I met from HS exchange programs, friends in Kyoto... In Boston, I know my Japanese teacher ^_^, and I am good friends with her son. Boston has a relatively small Japanese population...

Maciamo · 22 Oct 2004

How many people do I know ?
Well, if it's only people I have met and talked to, then maybe 500 or 1000 (?)
If you mean people I know well enough to remember their name, what they do or where they live, then about 150 to 200, I guess. My mobile phone has already over 100 people registered and it has been erased once when I lost it.

mad pierrot · 22 Oct 2004

You know you've been in Japan too long when...

My mobile phone has already over 100 people registered and it has been erased once when I lost it.

Mike Cash · 22 Oct 2004

In real life....the only people I know are Japanese.

SajberJohan · 22 Oct 2004

Maciamo said:
How many people do I know ?
Well, if it's only people I have met and talked to, then maybe 500 or 1000 (?)
If you mean people I know well enough to remember their name, what they do or where they live, then about 150 to 200, I guess. My mobile phone has already over 100 people registered and it has been erased once when I lost it.

Share goddamnit! >.<

BamaFan2989 said:
... also i saw this penpal website so i talk to a few of them...

Ah, could you share the adress onegaishimasu? :?

mikecash said:
In real life....the only people I know are Japanese.

Do you ever miss hanging out with "foreign" people? ^^

chiefen · 22 Oct 2004

joel.lindgren said:
I've went to school with people from Sri Lanka, China and Thailand but no Japanese. There aren't many Jap people in Sweden (except exchange students here for a brief period of time)

edit:

Heh. yeah, and if you're gonna put in a little Swedish lesson you'd want to do it correctly. "Nﾃ･nstans" ^_^

Geez... You're anal!

Nﾃ?ONSTANS! Nﾃｶjd nu?

Apollo · 22 Oct 2004

I know a LOT of Japanese people, also "mixed" Japanese...both in Denmark, US and...Japan of course.

I have both friends and family who are Japanese or mixed Japanese..
I guess I have 100-200 acquaintances, and about 50-100 friends and family members. Friends are from my time in Japan, and some from university, where some Japanese stayed at the same dormitory.
Also, my boyfriend, who is Danish-German, knows a lot of Japanese people because of his line of work, as he is in an industry where Japanese lobbyism is common, so he knows a lot of Japanese people, both business partners, and friends...e.g.:
Mayor of Tokyo, cousin to the imperial palace, government officials, professors etc..to name a few.

So, together, we have a big Japanese ring of friends, family, business partners, acquaintances....

Mike Cash · 22 Oct 2004

Do you ever miss hanging out with "foreign" people? ^^

Actually.......no.

And that short answer needs clarification, so I will go ahead and give it.

There aren't that many other English-speaking foreigners in my area to begin with. And I have practically nothing in common with them, other than the fact that we speak English, so there is nothing to base a relation on.

SajberJohan · 22 Oct 2004

Gah, you know the mayor of Tokyo!? Not fair >.< I want to know him too. Tell him I said hello next time you meet him and say that I'll be visiting this summer

Apollo · 22 Oct 2004

SajberJohan said:
Gah, you know the mayor of Tokyo!? Not fair >.< I want to know him too. Tell him I said hello next time you meet him and say that I'll be visiting this summer

It is my boyfriend who knows the Mayor and the other "influentials" listed in my previous post, and he has met him several times because of the keywords: LOBBYISM, money-making for his company. He works in a company which employs lobbying a lot in Japan.

I have met him too...for a meal.

chiefen · 22 Oct 2004

SajberJohan said:
Gah, you know the mayor of Tokyo!? Not fair >.< I want to know him too. Tell him I said hello next time you meet him and say that I'll be visiting this summer

Hey! You still haven't told me what city you live in!

DoctorP · 23 Oct 2004

How many Japanese people do I know? :?

I have about 75 employees that work for me that are Japanese. So I am quite well aquainted with them. I also have frequent contact with another 50 or so because of work. As far as friends, I have around 25 close friends that are Japanese and another 75-100 aquaintences. By that I mean that I have met them at least once and remain in contact in some form or another.

sgt. Pepper · 23 Oct 2004

One guy in my class is chinese, and there's some vietnamese people working in a video-store nearby me. That's about it. :/

chiefen · 23 Oct 2004

Hmm... One of my mom's friends had a japanese colleague at work(I don't know if he hangs out with him any longer). He was awesome at origamy.

sgt. Pepper said:
One guy in my class is chinese, and there's some vietnamese people working in a video-store nearby me. That's about it. :/

Hi! Are you sgt. pepper from Svenska Pc Gamers forum ?

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