Jim Breen <jwb@csse.monash.edu.au> wrote:

> anthropologist_of_japan@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Or, alternatively, the story was suppressed because the Japanese
> > public:
> > 
> > A. Didn't care about the boy or how savagely he was abused
> > 
> > OR
> > 
> > B. Felt that the boy deserved what he got and was glad about how he
> > was "punished"
> 
> OR (more likely)
> 
> C. the "story" was ignored because it is a figment of the imagination
> of a highly disturbed gaigin.

...a highly disturbed gaigin who can't move on with his therapy. 

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