"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3FEDE98B.4CBBBF98@yahoo.co.jp...
> Perhaps someone as smart and better than others as yourself (due to
graduate
> education or perhaps your color) should learn sooner to simply wait until
they
> got back home to get what they are looking for, and not expect to find
whatever
> it is (you seem to imply something meaningful or even marriage) in two
weeks in
> Japan. From what you are saying about Japan and what Japanese in general
feel
> about those who do what you do, you are not going to fit in.

I wasn't expecting much to begin with.  There was a small chance that people
knew of satisfactory options, but I figured it wouldn't happen.
Unfortunately, Japanese culture has turned anti-intellectual -- people just
want to become fashion designers, good karaoke singers, or whatever.  It's
not like the past where people valued intellectual achievement and wanted to
work hard for a living.  U.S. graduate schools are full of Chinese or Indian
grad students who have never been in a bar in their life, and have no desire
to.  Japanese are closer to blacks or hispanics in this regard.