Word: gaijin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 17th century by the military lord, or shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruled over all Japan through 15 generations of his descendants. The symbolic moment at which the period began to close was 1853, when Commodore Perry's black ships, crewed by their blue-eyed, spindle-nosed, strange-smelling gaijin, the Americans, sailed into lower Edo Bay and broke the seal of isolation from the West that the Tokugawa dynasty had imposed on Japan for so long...
...common for Japanese children to practice their English on the gaijin, and seeing me outside the museum, a little boy danced up, peered into my face and said brightly, "Murderer! Hello...
...resurrection of Warren Cromartie, 37, who returned after six years in Japan to become a backup first baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In Slugging It Out in Japan (Kodansha International; $19.95), Cromartie, once a star outfielder with the Montreal Expos, vividly recounts his frustrations as a gaijin home- run king with the Tokyo Giants. The transformation of baseball to fit Japanese cultural norms is familiar terrain for anyone who has read Robert Whiting's You Gotta Have Wa. With Whiting as his co-author, Cromartie illustrates the insidious ways the Japanese both honor and humiliate migrant American ballplayers...