
Surprisingly, he was having a very hard time finding his friends.
I know, because I too was having a hard time finding my friends and was waiting in the same place.
Maybe dressing like him would have helped...
clay wrote:Wait... which guy are you talking about?
サマージャンブル、3億円Hyperworm wrote:He didn't get a single part of that right
*squints*
Does that banner/sign in the background, that kind of looks like it's pointing right at him, say「サマーシャツ」...?
Probably, "Oh yeah, that's right, I can't go out naked. Better put on something first..."keatonatron wrote:Please notice the green and neon-orange flip-flops.
I often wonder what goes through people's heads when they are picking out their outfits in the morning...
I was going to ask... "what's a naikokujin?", but I googled and found this answer on Everything2:AJBryant wrote:Is that totally nail-sticking-up-guy a person a naikokujin or a gaikokujin? If the latter, it's funny, if the former, it's funny-sad.
Tony
The second paragraph sounds a little...内国人
Naikokujin was a term that had its heyday during the days of the Japanese Empire, especially during the second Sino-Japanese War. A naikokujin, or "inner country person," was a national of any of Japan's overseas holdings from Korea to Indonesia, in contrast to a gaikokujin, or "outer country person," which referred to people from outside the Empire. They were not Japanese citizens, and could only become Japanese citizens through an arduous test of feats of might.
The concept of naikokujin as opposed to gaikokujin (or gaijin) is still found in Japanese society today. While Koreans and Chinese in Japan are almost never called gaijin, they are never afforded the same level of respect that a real nihonjin would receive, even if they speak Japanese perfectly and have lived in Japan since birth.