Comments on: Half a Life as a Haafu http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/half-a-life-as-a-haafu/ Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:23:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Shintaro Nakano http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/half-a-life-as-a-haafu/#comment-402 Shintaro Nakano Sat, 11 Aug 2007 05:03:52 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2005/10/04/half-a-life-as-a-haafu/#comment-402 While nakamahazure [exclusion, ostracism] attitudes persist with both Kikokushijos [native kids returned from abroad] and Haafus, I find that life in Japan for both are quite different. Haafus living in Japan are tolerated more for being "chutohampa" [half-finished, lackadaisical] in their Japanese language skills, and are often praised for being good at it, while the former who can visually pass as a regular Japanese is also simulatenously deprived the feedom to keep his or her American ways. The kikokushijo will have to quickly learn the language to not only an adequate degree, but to a native level of someone who graduated high school in Japan. As well, while the Haafu will never be accepted in Japanese society until the day he or she will die, the Kikokushijos will eventually be re-integrated. The Haafu people may be jealous of this fact, but it is also important for the Haafu people that some kikokushijos also envy the freedom that the Haafu can continue to enjoy in Japan that the Kikokushijos had to renounce. The declaration of choice for the kikokushijo is not only for their nationality, but that they must choose to be fully Japanese culturally as well. I want to say that as a Kikokushijo Japanese male that I am really interested in connecting with not so much the regular Japanese, but with the haafus who I feel have a kindred spirit with. I am interested in also dating a haafu girl in Japan. I feel that haafu girls are beautiful, and if other Japanese men do not wish to have them, it is their loss. I am open, so please email me at lotusbomber@gmail.com While nakamahazure [exclusion, ostracism] attitudes persist with both Kikokushijos [native kids returned from abroad] and Haafus, I find that life in Japan for both are quite different. Haafus living in Japan are tolerated more for being “chutohampa” [half-finished, lackadaisical] in their Japanese language skills, and are often praised for being good at it, while the former who can visually pass as a regular Japanese is also simulatenously deprived the feedom to keep his or her American ways. The kikokushijo will have to quickly learn the language to not only an adequate degree, but to a native level of someone who graduated high school in Japan.

As well, while the Haafu will never be accepted in Japanese society until the day he or she will die, the Kikokushijos will eventually be re-integrated.

The Haafu people may be jealous of this fact, but it is also important for the Haafu people that some kikokushijos also envy the freedom that the Haafu can continue to enjoy in Japan that the Kikokushijos had to renounce.

The declaration of choice for the kikokushijo is not only for their nationality, but that they must choose to be fully Japanese culturally as well.

I want to say that as a Kikokushijo Japanese male that I am really interested in connecting with not so much the regular Japanese, but with the haafus who I feel have a kindred spirit with. I am interested in also dating a haafu girl in Japan. I feel that haafu girls are beautiful, and if other Japanese men do not wish to have them, it is their loss. I am open, so please email me at lotusbomber@gmail.com

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