Where are the gaijin branches/wards in Japan?
There are four gaijin/English speaking in Japan, three in Tokyo (the Tokyo first and second wards, which meet at Hiroo, and the Tokyo third, which meets in the Tokyo South stake center at Senzokuike in Ota-ku.) and one in Kobe (which people from all over Kansai attend). A good source of information on Tokyo’s English-speaking wards is at Franz Kelsch’s Tokyo South Stake website. There are also the military branches, but they tend to be too far away from the big cities to be applicable. Three military branches in Okinawa, one at Iwakuni (near Hiroshima), one at Sasebo (quite a ways away from Nagasaki). There are three English-speaking military branches in the Tokyo vicinity: Yokosuka, Yokota and Zama (Atsugi) branches. [Information on the Yokota and Zama branches was submitted by Jarom Matsuda (matsuda_jarom@jpmorgan.com), 29 Feb 2000.] For middle-large cities, there is usually a small group of ex-pats in the (Japanese-speaking) Ward who help make living in a foreign ward more pleasant.
