In fj.life.in-japan John Yamamoto-Wilson <john@rarebooksinjapan.com> wrote:
> Mike Fester wrote:

>> Hey, I knew an Irish-Japanese family; named 0'Gawa.

> Really? There's a delightful family named O'Hara in our neighbourhood,
> though I'm sorry to say they wouldn't know a ceilidh from a shillelagh. And
> in a cemetary in my wife's furusato lie the bones of Terence O'Reilly, the
> famed Irish plumber, known affectionately throughout Japan as O'TeArai.

A big hit at the izakaya, no doubt.

>> > And, since we're talking, the state of Israel dates from....
>>
>> From the time  the people with the guns got the land and called it such
> :-)

> I just *knew* that once we got past the local differences of perspective
> we'd find we were in complete agreement over this!

The beauty of the internet; the global perspective :-)

Mike