Tuesday, March 10, 2015

tues., 10 mar., 2015: an ironic japanese commemoration of a certain ongoing disaster?: give us This Day our Daily Curse

JAPANESE:  福島  — Fukushima    
JAPANESE:   外人  — Gaijin ... 
JAPANESE:   馬鹿なフライ人  — Baka na furaijin! 
JAPANESE:   アホなフライ人  — Aho na furaijin  

‡)  Lit.,Good-Fortune Island” or “Fortunate Island
   ‡‡)  Gaijin...” — lit., “People from outside the country [Japan]” — a usually pejorative & currently politically-incorrect Japanese term for foreign visitors, or foreign residents — dating from the 13th. C., to describe Chinese, but later to include the 16th. C. Portugues, & 17th. C. Dutch & British, 19th. C. Americans, & 20th. C. Koreans & Taiwanese. The term can also be used to describe ethnic Japanese peoples born & raised in the West or elsewhere in Asia…
 ‡‡‡)  Idiot flyjin!” — term of opprobrium aimed at those foreigners (外人 — Gaijin) living & working in Japan during the Tohoku earthquake & subsequent tsunami & Fukushima Daichi reactor meltdown who fled to the airports & caught the first flights out to resorts such as Phuket in Thailand (many being given vouchers & per-diems by the U.S. embassy in Tokyo), or to Hawaii, or elsewhere; oddly enough this term did not originate with the Japanese themselves but with the foreigners who were loyal, who stayed, stuck it out & did their jobs, & who felt betrayed by the chicken-shite cowardly life-support systems-for-arseholes who cut & ran…
‡‡‡‡ )  Idiot flyjin!” — Osaka dial.; see above…

          NOTE: for more edifying & epiphany-inducing info:  http://flyjin.com
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