Scott Reynolds wrote:

> On 6/8/2004 4:11 PM, Declan Murphy wrote:
> 
>> Scott Reynolds wrote:
>>
>>> But how come you know all this about the halfway house for 
>>> foreigners, Mike? I would guess that most Japanese people don't know 
>>> about it. Heck, even Japan experts like Howard French probably have 
>>> never heard of it.
>>
>> Howard French is a Japan expert? I thought he was a primarily a 
>> journalist, in the sort of correspondent genre.
> 
> He is a journalist, yes, but I find his penetrating analysis of current 
> events (grounded as it is in his long residence and varied experiences 
> in this country and native-level command of the Japanese language) to be 
> strikingly insightful and original.
> 
> Yet even someone as singularly knowledgeable about things Japanese as 
> Howard French probably does not know about the halfway house for 
> foreigners Mike mentioned.

Ok thanks. I've only seen one or two of his articles that I can recall. 
A travel piece about Matsumoto Castle perhaps the last one. I'll note 
the name for the future. Who does he write for?


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