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Re: Up-and-comers

At Masumiriki's Sumo Site, I use "international rikishi" for the rikishi
with a significant international (non-Japanese) connection.

Naturalized citizen is a citizen and NOT a foreigner, as you said. But
for the way of Japanese thinking, anyone with non-Japanese physical
characteristics is "gaijin", even if the person is a naturalized Japanese
citizen and speaks very good Japanese language.

-Toshiyori Masumiriki


At 8:34 PM +0900 8/18/01, Chris Shryock wrote:
>I think that if one possesses Japanese citizenship, then it is a bit of a
>misnomer to call them "foreigners".
>
>Chris Shryock
>