Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1g75hvi.18kk0al122j0onN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com...
> 
>>Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>The problem is that often some answer that will take 3 or 4 Japanese
>>>characters to write will take up a few inches of English. Japanese
>>>bureaucrats, in all their wisdom, usually create bilingual forms but
>>
> keep
> 
>>>the answer boxes the same size.
>>
>>...and no way could I remember how to write whatever the Japanese
>>version of  "Specialist in Humanities/ International Services" is, when
>>filling in forms.
> 
> Actually, I can't either!

Shirley you are both taking the piss. There is plenty of space. Just
fill in the form imaginatively

jin-bun-chi-shiki
um-youg-ias-ukok

with as many arrows as required and those yingyong characters fit in
easily.


-- 
I am not who I think I am
I am not who you think I am
I am who I think you think I am

...or some such shite.