The Japanese have the word Gaikokujin (Foreigner) but it doesn't really mean that. It really only applies to whites or blacks. If you're American of Oriental an

The Japanese have the word Gaikokujin (Foreigner) but it doesn't really mean that. It really only applies to whites or blacks. If you're American of Oriental ancestry they dont really see you as gaikokujin. Also, you get treated way differently. I'm a Hispanic American so I mostly got the gaikokujin treatment but my friends of Chinese ancestry got something different when we were studying in Japan for 2 years.