"Musashi" <Miyamoto@Hosokawa.co.jp> wrote in message
news:NMj4d.2471$wp1.689@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com...

> No no we are talking about only in Japan.
> That's why this is all about 外国人 and 英語。

Ah, but we established in a different thread that 外人 and probably even 外
国人 means "not Japanese" regardless of where you happen to be, didn't we?
Anyway, I think the Japanese habit of assuming "non-Japanese" speak English
applies equally both in Japan and elsewhere, don't you think?

Jeff