In the Roppongi entertainment district in Tokyo, the biggest American sports bar and a neighbouring British-style pub are sometimes known as “gaijin corner” – the colloquial term for foreigners. On Friday nights the two bars, their television screens blaring US baseball and European football, usually heave with expatriate office workers.
But on a recent weekend, the crowds at Legends bar and the Hobgoblin, part of the same chain, were half their usual size – and mainly Japanese. Business has been down about 35 per cent since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s north-east coast.
“Sales are recovering a bit now but the decline is definitely due to expats leaving – you can see it,” says one staff member.
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