Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!jpix!giga-nspixp2!spinnewsgate!attnet-tokyo!not-for-mail From: Scott Reynolds Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Gifu bombing anniversary? Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 08:41:46 +0900 Organization: JENS Internet Service Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <3F05CA44.9F142BE8@yahoo.co.jp> <545bd492.0307041729.584a4fdd@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307051812.607d5677@posting.google.com> <545bd492.0307060259.ded87dc@posting.google.com> <3F080357.7FBD4621@yahoo.co.jp> <3F0973F7.32C604E1@yahoo.co.jp> <3F099008.62C42969@yahoo.co.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: 41.pool3.dsl8mtokyo.att.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp 1057621305 26178 165.76.163.41 (7 Jul 2003 23:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsadm@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 23:41:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en,ja In-Reply-To: <3F099008.62C42969@yahoo.co.jp> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:2254 On 7/8/2003 12:21 AM, Eric Takabayashi wrote: > Scott Reynolds wrote: >>Oh, I see. International comparisons are not permissible. >> >>It would appear then that the only acceptable standard for comparison is >>perfection, which naturally Japan falls short of. > > That's right. Fine, then Japan will never measure up. You will always have something to complain about. ;-) I'm beginning to see why you have such a favorable opinion of the Hokkaido Crusader. > And strangely, he doesn't admit to much wrong with Japan, if at all. He > only sees criticism of Japan as some sort of racism, attack, or ignorance of my own > country. Masayuki is forceful in the presentation of his views, and I will freely admit that some of the things he says annoy me, or even anger me. But I have found that trying to understand what posters like Masayuki have to say is generally a worthwhile thing to do. I have learned a lot over the years that way. I for one am very glad that we have opinionated Japanese posters like Masayuki and Shuji participating in this group. It provides a useful balance. And it also makes things a lot more interesting than they would be otherwise. -- _______________________________________________________________ Scott Reynolds sar@gol.com