I am a Gaijin (foreigner). The Japanese see me as Gaijin. It doesn’t matter exactly where I’m from. Since this is Japan, what’s important is that I’m a Gaijin. Just an anonymous Gaijin. I don’t feel bad about being called a Gaijin. I came to Japan to become a Gaijin. Before I was a Gaijin, I went to visit a friend in my hometown and my friend’s older brother had been teaching English in a middle school in Japan and told me about how Japan was really fun. He said it was easy to become an English teacher in Japan, or like, you weren’t really a teacher. He explained that only Japanese people had the license to teach and we Gaijin were called ALT. An Assistant Language Teacher. ALT Gaijin merely had to pop into class from time to time, like a clown. They had no responsibilities. They don’t even need to speak Japanese. As long as you were a Gaijin you could pass the job interview. It’s easy work, he said. And then he said something that interested me the most: that Gaijin could sleep with Japanese girls very easily, simply by virtue of being Gaijin. And you must...