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n. (cx Japan English) A non-Japanese person.
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("outside person") is a Japanese word for foreigners and non-Japanese. The word is composed of two kanji: and . Similarly composed words that refer to foreign things include and . The word can refer to nationality, race, or ethnicity, concepts generally conflated in Japan.
Some feel the word has come to have a negative or pejorative connotation, while other observers maintain it is neutral or even positive. is a more neutral and somewhat more formal term widely used in the Japanese government and in media.
Usage examples of "gaijin".
He looked for Cassiopeia, for any of the Gaijin, reassuring dodecahedral bulks.
The Gaijin seem unhealthily obsessed with such illogical belief systems.
I went to Bellatrix with the Gaijin: Gamma Orionis, three hundred and sixty light-years away.
It melted like a defocusing image: grass and mud and trees and streams running together, everything but the three of them, two humans and a Gaijin, and that eerie universe-Sun, so that they seemed to be floating, bathed in a deeper darkness than Madeleine had ever known.
He tried to explain to his Gaijin companion, Cassiopeia, what it was that kept him staring down at this new world, long after he had exhausted the analytic possibilities of his eyeball scrutiny.
At two o'clock in the morning, the streets still swarming with young Japanese in American sports cars, girls sitting on the back of convertibles, gangsters and whores emerging from nightclubs, moving on to the next place, shirtless gaijins howling at the moon from upstairs whorehouses, I staggered down dark back streets, hit some more bars and, finding myself incongruously hungry again, and wanting to soak up some of the sea of alcohol in my stomach, committed the ultimate in Tokyo faux pas-I ate a McDonald's hamburger while I walked.
If the Gaijin were after helium-3, did that mean they used fusion processes similar to—perhaps no more advanced than—those already known to humans?
Surrounding the Gaijin shelter there were chapels and temples and mosques, embassies from various governments and inter-governmental bodies, a science park, representatives of most of the world’s major corporations.
For instance, if the Gaijin came here to extract light metals such as aluminum, magnesium, or titanium, they would most likely have used processes like magma electrolysis or pyrolysis.
When the news about the Gaijin first broke it was an immediate sensation, taking over every media outlet&mdash.
When the news about the Gaijin first broke it was an immediate sensation, taking over every media outlet—.
The millennialists, taking their lead from thinkers like Carl Sagan—not to mention Gene Roddenberry—believed that no star-spanning culture could possibly be hostile to a more primitive species like humanity, and the Gaijin must therefore be on their way to educate us or uplift us or save us from ourselves.
The Japanese seem to enjoy many private jokes at the expense of the gaijin.
Even from here, she could see Gaijin flower-ships circling the planet, the giant ramscoops of the alien craft visible as tiny discs.
Gaijin ships orbited Earth, tracking from pole to pole, their ramscoops casting golden light that glimmered from the ice and the oceans, mapping and studying, still following their own immense, patient projects.