Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!not-for-mail From: "necoandjeff" Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Japanese study... Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:29:49 +0900 Organization: Public NNTP Service, Kyoto University, JAPAN Lines: 17 Sender: jeff@schrepfer.com Message-ID: References: <4338dd87$0$6771$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1127812067.149484.128750@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <433b0bcc$0$22741$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1127952722.207631.301190@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <433c8492$0$17445$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1128045377.068822.33120@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <433cb4dc$0$11682$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> <1128066450.616389.253460@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1128079872.658404.103620@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1128084488.830413.147620@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tcn027059.tcn-catv.ne.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: caraway.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp 1128086979 2466 219.118.119.59 (30 Sep 2005 13:29:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:29:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:29740 John W. wrote: > necoandjeff wrote: >> >> I mean they're a bunch of hicks living in an urban setting (far more >> hickish than Tokyo, by a long shot). >> > Sounds like you've picked up the Japanese distaste for all things > Nagoya. My first year living in Japan was spent in Nagoya. I had no particular reason to dislike it until I lived in Tokyo and was able to compare the two. I could never live in Nagoya again and I don't particularly like going back to visit, although I still have a number of very good friends who live there. Jeff