Welcome

Welcome to guyjin.me. ’Guyjin’, of course, is a play on the word ‘gaijin’, which every foreigner has heard many times. I’m not going to get into a deep discussion of the pros and cons of the term here. Suffice it to say that I chose the name of this blog in an attempt to blur some of the lines between ‘gaijin’ and ‘nihonjin’, and to make the statement that I’m ‘Just a guy with a blog in Japan’…

Over the coming days and weeks and months, I intend to share some of my ramblings and thoughts about what I see in Japan on a day to day basis… I’ve been here for a while now, but there are still plenty of surprises…

I’ve been wanting to set up a blog for a while, and was going to wait till the beginning of September to get started, but with the major election under way today, I thought I’d get started now and throw out a few of my thoughts on what’s going on. I’ll do that in the next few posts…