I'm really noticing all the migrant workers in Tokyo. Being a migrant myself, when I first moved in to my current apartment, there were a lot of Japanese employees working in retail in the stores around my neighborhood.
Nowadays, I think all the convenience stores have name tags written in katakana. Half of the cash registers at my grocery store have a 日本語練習中 sign because the employees are Japanese learners.
I know that the ward offices in Minato have multi-lingual translators, but my ward office was still Japanese-only when I last visited.
There are a lot of us, so feels like we're all struggling together.
by CSachen