English

Noun

gaijin ‎(plural gaijin or gaijins)

1. (Japan) A non-Japanese person.
   • 1976, Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, page 207,

     For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner.

   • 1992, David Pollack, Reading Against Culture, Cornell Press, page 230

     And I did not intend to live my life as a gaijin—not merely, like the expatriate, someone by definition permanently out of place but someone unwanted as well.

   • 2004, Troy Anderson, The Way of Go, Simon and Schuster, page 149

     [...] I was placed in the gaijins' dormitory area up on the third floor.

   • 2006, Alan M. Klein, Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball, page 127

     Oh's pitchers later acknowledged that they were instructed—under penalty of a fine—to throw no strikes to the gaijin.

Translations

Japanese

Romanization

gaijin

1. rōmaji reading of がいじん