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I think when he says "literal meaning" he refers to the actual meaning and the meaning the society has weighted in on it. I think he also means that you are exactly an outsider in Japan and looked at one as such and treated as different, etc.
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Then he's using the term "literal" in a wrong fashion. He should use "acquired" meaning. "Literal" means that, "literal", something that comes up just by analyzing the word on isolation without any sort of contextual reference at all.