I’d be mostly surprised to run into a Westerner working in retail unless it was an establishment they ran; I’d be unsurprised to see a McDonalds or convenience store staffed primarily by Nepalese immigrants, contingent on that store being in Tokyo.
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As you probably know if you follow me: foreigner, particularly Westerners, who speak any useful level of Japanese continue to be so rare that I am pleasantly surprised if anyone is not pleasantly surprised that I am conversant or literate.
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This includes situations where background for the situation should be overwhelmingly in favor of me being literate, such as “I am here to open an account at the bank so I can repay the materially sized mortgage that you have exhaustively underwritten me for.”
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I know a few!
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I was one!
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Both these threads are great. Question: Has Harsjuku declined, as Noah suggests? I would miss those kids willing to die for the perfect used t-shirt.
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I work in Harajuku, have little personal interest in fashion, routinely observe what seem to be well-dressed people who clearly have high interest in fashion, and think that "kids these days are squandering their heritage! Back in *my* day..." is a very, very established genre.
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Tokyo University has a huge foreign population in engineering. Lots of civil engineering folk end up working for big construction companies. Automotive get a bunch too, though that might be tech adjacent
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There are a not inconsiderate number of Koreans and Chinese in other sectors, if I’m not wrong.
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