How many japanese people do you know?

[SajberJohan]

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 :okashii: 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]

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 :okashii: 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 nånstans?

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

[BlaqJap]

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]

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! :p

[BamaFan2989]

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]

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]

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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Var bor du nånstans?
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. "Nånstans" ^_^

[TwistedMac]

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]

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]

University of Hawaii has a lot of Japanese students (well, Hawaii in general has a lot of local and native Japanese people :D), 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

:blush:

[RockLee]

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) :souka:

[blade_bltz]

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]

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]

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.

:D

[Mike Cash]

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

[SajberJohan]

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! >.<

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

Ah, could you share the adress onegaishimasu? :?

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

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

[chiefen]

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

Geez... You're anal!

NÅGONSTANS! Nöjd nu? :P

[Apollo]

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....:D

[Mike Cash]

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]

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 :happy:

[Apollo]

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 :happy:

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]

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 :happy:


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

[DoctorP]

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]

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]

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.

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 ?

[sgt. Pepper]

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.



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

Yes.

Jag fick nåt konstigt Japan-anfall för några månader sedan och registrerade mig här. :)

[Inuyasha-the-kid]

I dont know any and dont see any.I wish I had some Japanese friends

[PopCulturePooka]

How many J people do I know?

Right now the number of japanese I currently know outweighs the non-japanese I currently know.

[starry night]

HI,

here in Canada, there are many japanese! and I think that they want to have a freind who speak english as mother tongue, but they don't have much chance to meet those people. well, I wish there were many people who want to speak english with us as freind.
btw,
I know a lot of japanese :p

[Sinspawne]

None.
Although I did give a japanese couple directions once.. yup... Tourists I think.

[Ewok85]

Lets see, I've attended half a dozen Japanese schools, in Aus spent a fair bit of time hosting and directing exchange students around over the course of my 5 years in highschool and go to a university that is about 15% foreign students. I'd say alot....

[StarCrap]

He was awesome at origamy.

Origami RULES!!

[Gaki]

I know probably over 10, but i would say only about 3 or 4 of them are friends.

[trancefuel]

Yep, I know about 10-50 nihonjin right here in California. Which I think is pretty good seeing that its california. And theres are real Japanese, such as born and raised in Japan and going to school here. anyways, I am a student of Japanese myself, others might find my website helpful if your learning the language. I am currently writing a book too. Visit it at www.trancefuel.com

Click on Japanese when you arrive at the homepage, you are welcome to surf through the rest of the site. Its mostly about my life and interest, which is why the Japanese section of the website is a good 1/3 of the site. You can go directly to the japanese area of the site by going to japanese.trancefuel.com or http://www.trancefuel.com/japanese/idx_japanese.php

Plus, I love movies, so if you wish to watch Japanese TV shows Free on the internet 24/7 visit my movies area of the site, where you can watch live TV from many different countries. You can view TV shows here, http://www.trancefuel.com/videostuff/idx_winTV.php

[cicatriz esp]

I guess I personally know about 7 or 8. There is my girlfriend (from Osaka) who lives with me, my two male friends here in LA, my friend in Tokyo, and all the teachers at my school OSULA. There are a LOT less Japanese people in LA than eight to ten years ago, but between Torrance, little Tokyo, and Sawtelle we still manage.

Btw, if anyone wants to know of a great Japanese school in LA, go to www.osula.com ... the teachers are all from Japan and they move you pretty fast :)

[Mike Cash]

Yep, I know about 10-50 nihonjin right here in California. Which I think is pretty good seeing that its california. And theres are real Japanese, such as born and raised in Japan and going to school here. anyways, I am a student of Japanese myself, others might find my website helpful if your learning the language. I am currently writing a book too. Visit it at www.trancefuel.com

I take it you're the same person who wrote this:
http://www.trancefuel.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=28

Is that correct?

[ArmandV]

Since I conduct regular business with Toho Co., Ltd. (Tokyo and their Los Angeles offices), I have met quite a number of Japanese people through them and while going there this year and in 2001.

[SajberJohan]

So where´s a good palce to meet japanese people on the net then? Do they go to foreign forums or are they all at japaneseforum.jp? :?

[Pox]

wow, who voted on "over 500"??

I voted "I'm Japanese(born and raised in Jpn)", and dont know how many Japanese I know . 100? 500? 1000? :?

[Maciamo]

wow, who voted on "over 500"??

I voted "I'm Japanese(born and raised in Jpn)", and dont know how many Japanese I know . 100? 500? 1000? :?

Yes, I was wondering too. Just knowing 500 people, especially from a country that is not yours, is quite impressive.

[DragonChan]

Seeing as how I am in Japan right now, everybody is Japanese so my count goes pretty high.

At home in Vancouver I see tons of people from various cultures all the time, and I am sure quite a few of them are Japanese. But I only really know 10 or so Japanese people well enough to count.

[Reiku]

Yes, I was wondering too. Just knowing 500 people, especially from a country that is not yours, is quite impressive.

I don't even think I know more than 200 people altogether... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/ReikuHiteruo/Emoticons/common075.gif

[Mimmy_08]

How many Japanese I know? well Im working in Japanese company my boss is Japenese and also we have sister company in Japan, so I meet all the staffs and Engineer there...Nihonjin is great! I admire them

[okaeri_man]

i'll vote 50-100 since it's true, but only 3 i could claim to be good friends.

[Master X]

I'm friends with 2 japanese people. One of them is half Korean and half japanese...

[cyber ape]

Well, there weren't many Asians in Texas and the only Asians here in Georgia are all Korean XD

Let's see. Daisuke is one of my best friends. He lived somewhere near Kyoto for quite some time, thenmoved here for 1 year, where he learned hardly any English XD, then moved to Tokyo. I know some sushi chefs at Miyabi(Yoshi, Oda, Keita). I've been penpals with a girl in Japan for some time now(Megumi) and her wonderful sister Asuka.

So, total, I know about 10-15. Oh well, once I actually move to Japan(should be after this school year) I'll know quite alot and try to report back here :cool:

[ffrost_nova622]

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 :okashii: Ah well, guess we swedish people are kinda scary with our vikinghorns 'n' stuff ^^

But what are asian/japanese people like where you live?
the asains tend to stick together (i dont know why) :cute: :cute: i wish i knew a japanese girl!

[seimeinogakusei]

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 :okashii: Ah well, guess we swedish people are kinda scary with our vikinghorns 'n' stuff ^^

But what are asian/japanese people like where you live?
Here in LA (the state, not Los Angeles), Japanese people are almost nonexistent. Our Asian population is mainly Vietnamese, Chinese, and Korean. I only know one Japanese person that I met through online. (He doesn't live here.)