For instance, if a newcomer in any neighbourhood called first on an oldcomer, the act was classed with burglaries: nobody ever did call thus on an older resident, but, if anyone had, that is how it would have been looked on.
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For instance, if a newcomer in any neighbourhood called first on an oldcomer, the act was classed with burglaries: nobody ever did call thus on an older resident, but, if anyone had, that is how it would have been looked on.
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As has already been described, in the 'oldcomer' district, 'newcomers' are at times in the position of being helped by the established 'foreigners' of the community.
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This chapter examines the evolution of Japanese elites' though about the appropriate role of foreign residents in Japan —which, for most of the postwar period, was a community largely made up of oldcomer Koreans. In particular, I focus on the period in the 1970s and 1980s when Japan ultimately decided to outlaw a variety of discriminatory practices against oldcomer Koreans.
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If not, if you are not going to protect the business that has earned some by competition, then there is going to be no protection for anyone at any time, unless you are going to shoot craps for all licenses, not even a newcomer who wants to become an "oldcomer."
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