Gday Rezz,
Firstly welcome back the land of Oz,
When I was working in Japan I found that alot of the Gaijin over there tend to stick together rather than mix alot with the locals, I suppose this is the same in most countries but the thing that got me most was that foreigners seem to get away with alot of shit over there with no intervention of the police and if the police did turn up they were really not useful in sorting out the problem. This was back in 99 and I was just wondering if this has changed, surely the Japanese would not put up with this behaviour on their soil.
Also I would like to say that all the J-girls that I worked with and played with all preffered Gaijin......... maybe I just got lucky or maybe I was just working in the right industry. Just my observations.