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Update: This picture was of course taken at the Yurakucho Muji, but my big Muji surprise for the day was when I got back to Ikebukuro and went to another Muji to buy something (a mixer) and saw a foreigner working at a register! She was blonde, and seemed to speak Japanese natively (I just heard from afar, I wasn’t at her register).

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We may have crossed paths, as we also were in Ginza today and went to Muji. :)

05.10.16 1:49
Posted by Patrick
Oh, too bad I didn’t know you’d also be in the area, we could have met up.

05.10.16 2:21
Posted by Jean Snow
I once encountered a gaijin working at a Uniqlo and his “irrashaiimase” really scared me. Blue eyes and keigo don’t mix.

05.10.18 15:13
Posted by jupiter
Yeah, there’s something weird about seeing a foreigner acting very Japanese like that. I mean, sure, there are plenty of foreigners working in Japan, but you don’t often (read: never) see non-Asian people working retail.

05.10.18 23:35
Posted by Jean Snow

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