9.2.1 - fj.life.in-japan
This newsgroup is fairly small in terms of the total number of individual posters, but the traffic is reasonably high.
Most (though not all) of the posters are foreigners resident in Japan, for many of whom the newsgroup is as much a social
or support network as anything else. Discussions can (and usually do) ramble quickly off topic, and the atmosphere can
frequently resemble a kind of private club with a lot of "inside jokes", but there are also frequently absolute gems of
information posted if you are patient.
A disappointing aspect is that there are very few Japanese people posting to the
group. You need to have a reasonably high level of English or Japanese to participate actively (though Japanese is not
essential). It should also be noted that some of the regular posters will be very quick to dump on anyone considered to
be asking a particularly dumb question. You may need a thick skin.
I suggest that if you have a specific question to ask, that you first use google to read the
archives in advance (chances are that whatever it is you want to ask has been discussed at least once before) and/or
lurk for a while until you have a feel for the newsgroup and can identify some of the more fractious personalities.
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