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（英会話リスニングスクリプト）
For young and fashionable Japanese, London
has become not just a place to visit but "the only"
place to live.
Riwa, a Japanese journalist, says that there
are at least 30,000 of them living in England's capital.
She says that they can be divided into two
groups; the smaller group enjoys traditional English culture
such as afternoon tea at the big hotels, cashmere sweaters
and gardening; the larger group consists of art and fashion
students, musicians and people who want to be DJs.
Most of them study English and work part-time
selling clothes or running stalls in London's many markets.
But although they study English in the day,
it is the music or fashion scene that attracts them.
In London, Japanese have the opportunity
to choose elements of British culture and mould a new identity
which is very fashionable and unique to these "New
Londoners".
However, not everybody is so enthusiastic.
Fumio, a 48-year-old businessman living
in London, is less impressed with the young generation's
new British lifestyle.
"They're trapped in London," he
says.
"They've become addicted to the fashion,
music and freedom in this country.
They'll wake up when they're 30 and realize
that they've wasted their time when they should have been
getting started in a career doing something responsible.
I feel sure that they will regret their
wild times in London."
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